English
suffragate
Suffragate comes from Latin suffragatus ‘supported’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuffragatus‘supported’
- Englishearliest quotation 1676suffragate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuffragatus‘supported’
- Englishearliest quotation 1676suffragate
Earliest quotation: 1676, John Dryden: “suffragating tribes”.
Every English word from Latin suffragatus
Today it means
verb To vote.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin suffragatus / suffragate