1800s

Latin words first recorded in the 19th century

1 Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 19th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

1. calcium

   1808

   It is from Latin calx (“lime, limestone”) + -ium, with the ending used for chemical elements. The English chemist Humphry Davy coined it in 1808, when he became the first to isolate the metal.

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