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Latin words first recorded in the 3rd century

185 Latin words whose earliest known written record dates from the 3rd century, earliest first (page 4). Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. trias

    300–399

    It is borrowed from Ancient Greek τριάς (triás, “the number three, triad”). The Greek word is formed on τρεῖς (treîs, “three”), from Proto-Indo-European *trei- (“three”).

  2. visualis

    300

    It is from Latin vīsus (“sight, the power of seeing”) + -ālis.

  3. vitus

    300–399

    Wiktionary takes it as inherited from Proto-Italic *weitus or *wītus, inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itus, from the root *weh₁y- (“to twist, twine”). Walde likewise connected it with vieō…

  4. biber

    It is from Latin bibere (“to drink”), the present infinitive cut short to ⟨biber⟩ and then declined as a noun.

  5. o

    It is an expressive word, an exclamation. Köbler compares a PIE interjection Proto-Indo-European *ō. The use as a vocative particle (“O …!”) is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὦ (ô); older Latin…

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