English
sudorous
Sudorous comes from Latin sudor ‘sweat’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsudor‘sweat’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsudorus
- Englishearliest quotation 1650sudorous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsudor‘sweat’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsudorus
- Englishearliest quotation 1650sudorous
Earliest quotation: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “the strigments and sudorous adhesions from men's hands”.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- ‘to sweat, perspire’
Today it means
adj Consisting of, or relating to, sweat.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sudor / sudorous