English
sublevation
Sublevation comes from Latin sublevare ‘to lift up’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsublevare‘to lift up’
- Englishearliest quotation 1663sublevation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsublevare‘to lift up’
- Englishearliest quotation 1663sublevation
Earliest quotation: 1663, Edward Waterhouse, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight: “The greateſt diſcoveries men have of God's light and…”
A compound of sub ‘under’ + levare ‘to lift, raise’
Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’
Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’
Latin sub ‘under’
Every English word from Latin sublevare
Today it means
noun The act of raising on high; elevation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sublevare / sublevation