Etymograph

English

stadial

Stadial comes from Latin stadiālis.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstadiālis
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2002stadial

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstadiālis
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2002stadial

Earliest quotation: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: “He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in…”

Today it means

adj Pertaining to a glacial stade.

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

Etymograph / Latin stadiālis / stadial