English
tabid
Tabid comes from Latin tābidus ‘melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- ‘to melt’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂-‘to melt’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtābeō‘to melt, melt down or away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtābidus‘melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, rotting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1765tabid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂-‘to melt’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtābeō‘to melt, melt down or away’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtābidus‘melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, rotting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1765tabid
Earliest quotation: 1765, Laurence Sterne, Gentleman: “he certainly muſt have gone upon ſome of the…”
Formed from tabes + -id
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- ‘to melt’
Today it means
adj Pertaining to tabes.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- / tabid