Etymograph

English

subitaneous

Subitaneous comes from Latin subitaneus ‘sudden, unexpected’, and goes back to subitus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubitus‘sudden, unforeseen’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubitaneus‘sudden, unexpected’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1989subitaneous

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubitus‘sudden, unforeseen’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubitaneus‘sudden, unexpected’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1989subitaneous

Earliest quotation: 1989, Roger Neville Hughes, Functional Biology of Clonal Animals: “... subitaneous (immediately developing) and diapausing (dormant) eggs, brood…”

Linked words

through Latin subitaneus ‘sudden, unexpected’

suddenly, sudden, 1 more

Today it means

adj Sudden; suddenly done or made.

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

Etymograph / Latin subitus / subitaneous

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