unilateralis

Forms

ūnilaterālis (neuter ūnilaterāle); third-declension two-termination adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin ūnus (“one”) + latus² (“side”) + -ālis, a coinage of New Latin.^[1][2]

Earliest recorded meaning

The sources give no early dated use;^[2] Etymonline names it as the Modern Latin source of English unilateral, recorded from 1802.^[2]

Semantic evolution

Stelten lists it among the words of Ecclesiastical Latin in the sense “unilateral”, together with the adverb unilateraliter.^[3]

Timeline

• 1802 – English borrows it as unilateral, “of or pertaining to one side only”.^[2]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (New Latin) unilateral, one-sided.^[1][3]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
3. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson