Etymograph

English

prostibule

Prostibule comes from Latin prostibulum ‘prostitute, whore’, and goes back to stō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstō1
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōstō2‘to prostitute oneself’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprostibulum3‘prostitute, whore’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2003prostibule3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin prosto
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin prostibulum
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English prostibule
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2003, Enrique Mallen, A Minimalist Approach to Picasso's Visual Grammar: Les Demoi: “As a result, the viewer is again introduced in…”.

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstōWiktionary, Latin prosto
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōstōWiktionary, Latin prostibulum‘to prostitute oneself’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprostibulumWiktionary, English prostibule‘prostitute, whore’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2003prostibuleWiktionary, English prostibule. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2003, Enrique Mallen, A Minimalist Approach to Picasso's Visual Grammar: Les Demoi: “As a result, the viewer is again introduced in…”

Linked words

through Latin stō

rest, stage, distance, station, instance, instant, substance, distant, extant, distal, oust, obstetric, 24 more

Today it means

noun A brothel.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “prostibule”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin prosto, Latin prostibulum. 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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