English
solosexuality
Solosexuality comes from Latin sōlus ‘alone’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōlus‘alone’
- Englishearliest quotation 2016solosexuality
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōlus‘alone’
- Englishearliest quotation 2016solosexuality
Earliest quotation: 2016, Solosexual: Portrait of a Masturbator: “Many people treat the terms solosexual and autosexual as…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *swé ‘self’
such, self, suicide, idiot, sans, swain, idiocy, sere, 19 more
through Latin sōlus ‘alone’
sole, solitary, desolate, solitude, desolation, sullen, solitaire, solus, 4 more
Today it means
noun The act, practice, or quality of being sexual with oneself.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sōlus / solosexuality