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START / NODE 953Present-Day English15th century–today
exhume
To remove from burial or recover from obscurity; borrowed from Medieval Latin exhumare, literally a formation on ex, out of, and humus, earth.
“Exhume contains the same Latin humus found in the soil word: its oldest reviewed structure is literally out of the earth. The archival metaphor is later than the burial sense.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishexhume
remove from burial; recover from obscurity
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Middle English · Middle Englishexhumeremove from burial
- SOUND CHANGE
- Middle English exhume continues into modern exhume with later pronunciation standardization.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- Physical removal from burial remains primary while recovery from obscurity develops figuratively.
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- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- Recorded in English from the fifteenth century.
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