English
strenuous
Strenuous comes from Latin strenuus ‘quick’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstrenuus‘quick’
- Englishearliest quotation 1951strenuous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstrenuus‘quick’
- Englishearliest quotation 1951strenuous
Earliest quotation: 1951, Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck: “It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ster- ‘stiff’
still, start, street, stronger, strongly, strongest, stern, straw, cholesterol, stare, throttle, strengthen, torpedo, stereo, starve, sterile, sterility, 17 more
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- ‘to be stiff, rigid, strong’
Today it means
adj Having great vigour or energy; forceful.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin strenuus / strenuous