Etymograph

English

squalid

Squalid comes from Latin squālidus ‘stiff, rough’, and goes back to squālus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquālus
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquālor‘stiffness, roughness’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquāleō‘to be stiff or rough (with)’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquālidus‘stiff, rough’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1686squalid

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquālus
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquālor‘stiffness, roughness’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquāleō‘to be stiff or rough (with)’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsquālidus‘stiff, rough’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1686squalid

Earliest quotation: 1686, The Refin'd Courtier: “[...] Mythologists describe Pan the son of Mercury (who…”

Every English word from Latin squālus

Another origin of squalid

  1. mul-taxmodernSqualidae
  2. Englishtodaysqualid

Today it means

adj Extremely dirty and unpleasant.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin squālus / squalid

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