Etymograph

English

crastination

Crastination comes from Latin crastinus ‘of tomorrow’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *krās.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*krās1‘tomorrow’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcras2‘tomorrow’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrastinus2‘of tomorrow’
  4. Englishtodaycrastination2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin cras
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English crastination

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*krāsWiktionary, Latin cras‘tomorrow’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrasWiktionary, English crastination‘tomorrow’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrastinusWiktionary, English crastination‘of tomorrow’
  4. EnglishtodaycrastinationWiktionary, English crastination

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘head, top’

horn, cheer, hart, cerebral, grail, corny, crater, migraine, cornea, cairn, cornet, carotid, cerebellum, cranium, cerebrum, rother, keratin, 50 more

through Latin crastinus ‘of tomorrow’

procrastinate, 2 more

Today it means

noun procrastination; delaying things until later

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “crastination”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin cras. 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.

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