Etymograph

English

integrate

Integrate comes from Middle English integrat(e) ‘intact, whole’, from Latin integer ‘untouched, unhurt’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to touch’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-1‘to touch’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*n̥th₂gros1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*n̥tagros1‘untouched’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinteger1‘untouched, unhurt’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintegrō2‘to make whole, renew, repair, begin again’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintegrātus2‘renewed, restored, having been made whole’perfect passive participle of integrō
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500integrat(e)2‘intact, whole’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1967integrate2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin integro
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English integrate
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committe, Hearings: “Data gathered at each remote site include sulphur dioxide…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-Wiktionary, Latin integro‘to touch’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*n̥th₂grosWiktionary, Latin integroreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*n̥tagrosWiktionary, Latin integro‘untouched’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintegerWiktionary, Latin integro‘untouched, unhurt’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintegrōWiktionary, English integrate‘to make whole, renew, repair, begin again’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintegrātusWiktionary, English integrate‘renewed, restored, having been made whole’perfect passive participle of integrō
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500integrat(e)Wiktionary, English integrate‘intact, whole’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1967integrateWiktionary, English integrate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committe, Hearings: “Data gathered at each remote site include sulphur dioxide…”

first attested First attested in the 1450's (as stated in Wiktionary’s etymology)

The story

First attested in the 1450's as an adjective, first attested in 1638 as a verb; from Middle English integrat(e) (‘intact, whole’), borrowed from Latin integrātus, perfect passive participle of integrō (‘to make whole, renew, repair, begin again’) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from integer (‘whole, fresh’) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to touch’

contact, taste, tangible, tame, taxis, contingent, attain, tactile, taxonomy, tact, contiguous, tangent, talon, contagion, tama, talus, ataxia, contaminate, thwack, 31 more

through Proto-Italic *n̥tagros ‘untouched’

entirety, 7 more

through Latin integer ‘untouched, unhurt’

entire, 8 more

Today it means

verb To include as a constituent part or functionality.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “integrate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin integro. 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 *teh₂g- / integrate

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