The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*slewbʰ-“slip, slide”
- Latin · borrowed fromlūbricātus
- English todaylubricate
Borrowed from Latin lūbricātus, perfect passive participle of lūbricō (“make slippery”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from lūbricus (“slippery”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*slewbʰ- all →
slipaslope
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.