Etymograph

English

unify

Unify comes from Late Latin unificare.

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEunificare
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600unifier
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2008unify

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEunificare
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600unifier
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2008unify

Earliest quotation: 2008, Eliza Mada Dalian, In Search of the Miraculous: Healing Into Consciousness: “Ultimately, all frequencies unify into an unmoving state of…”

Today it means

verb Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Late Latin unificare / unify