English
transpicuous
Transpicuous comes from Latin trānspicuus ‘transparent’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānspicuus‘transparent’
- Englishearliest quotation 1983transpicuous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānspicuus‘transparent’
- Englishearliest quotation 1983transpicuous
Earliest quotation: 1983, Hugh Trevor Roper, The Highland Tradition of Scotland: “The Sobieski Stuarts were amiable, scholarly men who won…”
Every English word from Latin trānspicuus
Today it means
adj Easily construed or seen through.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trānspicuus / transpicuous