English
vitrescent
Vitrescent comes from Latin vitrum ‘glass’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvitrum‘glass’
- Englishearliest quotation 1791vitrescent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvitrum‘glass’
- Englishearliest quotation 1791vitrescent
Earliest quotation: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation: “You from deep cauldrons and unmeasured caves / Blow…”
Formed from -escent
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘water’
water, wet, wash, und, vodka, surround, abundance, hydro, abundant, otter, redundant, hydrate, hydride, aldehyde, vedra, inundate, undine, 44 more
through Latin vitrum ‘glass’
Today it means
adj Becoming glass; glassy, vitreous.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin vitrum / vitrescent