English
tolutation
Tolutation comes from Latin tolutim ‘on a trot, properly, lifting up the feet’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolutim‘on a trot, properly, lifting up the feet’
- Englishearliest quotation 1650tolutation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtolutim‘on a trot, properly, lifting up the feet’
- Englishearliest quotation 1650tolutation
Earliest quotation: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “whether they move per latera, that is, two legs…”
Every English word from Latin tolutim
Today it means
noun A pacing or ambling.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin tolutim / tolutation