Etymograph

English

saturity

Saturity comes from Latin saturitas ‘fullness, repletion, satiety’, from satur ‘full, sated’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satiate’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-1‘to satiate’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsatur1‘full, sated’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaturitas2‘fullness, repletion, satiety’
  4. Englishtodaysaturity2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin saturitas
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English saturity

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-Wiktionary, Latin saturitas‘to satiate’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaturWiktionary, Latin saturitas‘full, sated’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaturitasWiktionary, English saturity‘fullness, repletion, satiety’
  4. EnglishtodaysaturityWiktionary, English saturity

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satiate’

sad, insane, secular, sane, sanitary, sanity, insatiable, hadron, sade, satiety, satiate, 19 more

Today it means

noun The state of being satiated; fullness, repletion.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “saturity”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin saturitas. 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 *seh₂- / saturity

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