Etymograph

English

jugate

Jugate comes from Latin iugātus ‘yoked together in pairs’, from iugō ‘to yoke’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yewg-1‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yugóm1‘yoke’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*jugom1‘yoke’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiugum1‘yoke’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiugō2‘to yoke’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiugātus2‘yoked together in pairs’perfect passive participle of iugō
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1945jugate2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin iugo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English jugate
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1945, N.B. Tindale, Minutes of the 553d regular meeting of the Entomological Soc: “Fore and hind wings are jugate.”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yewg-Wiktionary, Latin iugo‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yugómWiktionary, Latin iugo‘yoke’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*jugomWiktionary, Latin iugo‘yoke’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiugumWiktionary, Latin iugo‘yoke’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiugōWiktionary, English jugate‘to yoke’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiugātusWiktionary, English jugate‘yoked together in pairs’perfect passive participle of iugō
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1945jugateWiktionary, English jugate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1945, N.B. Tindale, Minutes of the 553d regular meeting of the Entomological Soc: “Fore and hind wings are jugate.”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *yewg- ‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’

join, yoga, conjunction, junction, jodi, adjunct, juncture, jugular, yojana, 42 more

through Proto-Indo-European *yugóm ‘yoke’

yogi, yoke, zygote, yuga, 12 more

through Latin iugō ‘to yoke’

conjugation, 2 more

Today it means

adj Forming a pair.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “jugate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin iugo. 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 *yewg- / jugate

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