Help finding the eytmology of the latin word "*****"?

Question

Im writing a report on Word useage and it seem that I have dug myself into a hole. Does anyone know where I could possibly find the year in which it entered the latin language. I've been to the Online Etymology Dictionary and to Dictionary.com but still comming up with no really clues. I am pretty sure the word was used before the 15th century. I just need a good idea when, it was created.

Answer 1

Short answer: ***** comes from a prehistoric verb meaning to be dark, to be night. Find it in most dictionaries in the appendix under Indo- European Roots.

This word is actually older than the Latin language itself.

The Indo-European language is a theory that there was once a culture with a language which spread all over Europe and into India. Linguists believe that this culture existed over 6000 years ago.

The entry under nek(w)-t, mentions a verb "neg" to be dark or night. Makes sense that this would evolve into a word meaning black.

It's a complicated story of how K, G, and C are all related letters. You can check out the wikipedia article for yourself later if you wish.

Herodotus is the earliest known author to speak of the ethnographies of the Ancient world (Pindar and Aristotle other two). He used the word "melanchroes" to describe the dark-skinned Colchians. Melas is black in Greek. Interesting that the Indo root under mel(3) defines it as bad, wrong. Not sure that melas came from mel, but that English "melancholy" was used to describe black bile makes it pretty reasonable. Black has never been a good word in any language.

Answer 2

You're never going to get there - two insurmountable problems.

First, '*****' is not a Latin word. It never entered the language, so there is no date to find.

'*****' is a Spanish word, derived from the Latin 'nigra', meaning 'black'.

Now the second problem - with the exception of some relatively modern coined words, there is no way to tell the year a specific word entered any language. Sometimes you can find the first written record of a word, but that just defines that the word already existed at the time it was written and is by definition older than that - maybe only a few days because the writer coined the word, maybe centuries of unrecorded prior use. Sometimes you
can trace the derivation of a word and establish that some are more recent than others.

Spanish developed in Iberia after the fall of the Roman Empire. At that time, Vulgar Latin was the language in use at the time. People didn't just stop speaking Latin and start speaking Spanish - it took about 1000 years for Spanish to become a separate language. At some point in that 1000 years, Latin 'nigra' evolved into Spanish '*****' . In roughly the same time frame, the same Latin word became 'nero' in Italian and 'negre' in Catalan.

In 1492 (easy year to remember), the first Spanish-Latin dictionary was written. This acts like a milestone marking the final split between Latin and Spanish.

You can say, with some degree of comfort, that '*****' was first used before 1500 and after 500. Someone who has extensively studied the history of Spanish may be able to pin it down closer than that. Purely as a guess, it was likely fairly early in that span - say 500 AD to 900 AD.

Answer 3

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