Etymograph

English

vocabularium

Vocabularium comes from Latin vocābulārium ‘vocabulary, dictionary, wordlist’, from vocābulum ‘designation, name’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wokʷ-reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvoc(ā)
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvocābulum‘designation, name’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvocābulārium‘vocabulary, dictionary, wordlist’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1885vocabularium

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wokʷ-reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvoc(ā)
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvocābulum‘designation, name’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvocābulārium‘vocabulary, dictionary, wordlist’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1885vocabularium

Earliest quotation: 1885, Loyalty pseudonym, Volunteer Insubordination: “I therefore want to know if a captain of…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-

advocate, provoke, vocational, provocative, provocation, vocation, irrevocable, provocateur, revocable, 23 more

Today it means

noun Vocabulary.

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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ- / vocabularium

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