The story
- Latin · derived fromosculor“to kiss”
- English todayinosculate
First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (“a kiss”). The adjective is a back-formation from inosculation, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Words from the same roots
Latinosculor all →
osculatrix
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.