Etymograph

English

condite

Condite comes from Latin condiō ‘to preserve, pickle, season’, from condō ‘to put together’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱóm1‘beside, near, by, with’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kom1‘with, along, at’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kom-1‘together’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondō2‘to put together’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondiō3as condīre, past participle‘to preserve, pickle, season’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondītus3
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1624condite3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin con-
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin condio
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English condite
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “Such are puddings stuffed with blood, or otherwise composed;…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱómWiktionary, Latin con-‘beside, near, by, with’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*komWiktionary, Latin con-‘with, along, at’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kom-Wiktionary, Latin con-‘together’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondōWiktionary, Latin condio‘to put together’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondiōWiktionary, English conditeas condīre, past participle‘to preserve, pickle, season’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondītusWiktionary, English condite
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1624conditeWiktionary, English condite. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “Such are puddings stuffed with blood, or otherwise composed;…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’

do, fact, deal, hot, fair, defense, fan, feature, mid, benefit, fashion, theme, defence, custom, ethnic, sufficient, treasury, treasure, ethical, thesis, aesthetic, feast, synthetic, theology, doom, defendant, tick, deed, atheist, ethic, atheism, dis, demi, deem, spade, thematic, ethos, feral, fanatic, familial, 128 more

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’

here, 14 more

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’

among, gain, comply, likeness, hind, kata, limbed, 31 more

through Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’

cum, consideration, cue, 14 more

through Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’

conference, consider, competition, counter, consistent, concrete, con, compulsory, commodity, compel, contra, concierge, connotation, condescend, 15 more

Today it means

verb To pickle; to preserve.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “condite”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin con-, Latin condio. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm / condite

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