Intimate
/ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/noun
Having a very close personal relationship or involving private, personal details.
Did you know?Intimate comes from Latin intimatus, the past participle of intimare, meaning “to make known” or “to announce,” from intimus, “inmost,” so its history is about revealing what is deepest inside.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
5
“to go into, enter”
Latin
Latin
intimus
“inmost, deepest, most inward”
Late Latin
Latin
intimare
“to make known, announce, communicate”
Old French
Old French
intime
“close, familiar, inward”
14th-15th Century
English
intimate
“familiar, close; later, private or personal”