Etymology

convulse

C3O1N1V4U1L1S1E1

Today it means: To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort. Full definition →

Latin convulsus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromconvulsus
  2. English todayconvulse

From Latin convulsus, past participle of convellere (“to pluck up, dislocate, convulse”), from com- (“together”) + vellere (“to pluck, pull”). Doublet of convel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.