Etymograph

English

cribrate

Cribrate comes from Latin crībrātus ‘sifted’, from crībrō ‘to sift’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sieve, pick out, separate’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krey-1‘to sieve, pick out, separate’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kréydʰrom1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kreiðrom1reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrībrum2‘sieve, riddle, winnow’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrībrō3‘to sift’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrībrātus3‘sifted’
  7. Englishtodaycribrate3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin cribrum
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin cribro
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English cribrate

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krey-Wiktionary, Latin cribrum‘to sieve, pick out, separate’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kréydʰromWiktionary, Latin cribrumreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kreiðromWiktionary, Latin cribrumreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrībrumWiktionary, Latin cribro‘sieve, riddle, winnow’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrībrōWiktionary, English cribrate‘to sift’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrībrātusWiktionary, English cribrate‘sifted’
  7. EnglishtodaycribrateWiktionary, English cribrate

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sieve, pick out, separate’

certain, secretary, secret, crime, criminal, crisis, discrimination, discretion, critic, critique, discreet, riddle, discern, discrete, discriminate, criterion, hypocrite, endocrine, excrement, excretion, rime, certitude, ridder, incrimination, incriminate, excrete, recrimination, criterium, 44 more

Today it means

adj Cribriform.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “cribrate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin cribrum, Latin cribro. 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 *krey- / cribrate

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