English
Falange
Falange comes from Spanish Falange ‘phalanx, phalange’, and goes back to Ancient Greek φάλαγξ.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEφάλαγξphálanx‘phalanx, a clustered mass of infantry’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEphalanx
- Spanishc. 1500–presentFalange‘phalanx, phalange’
- Englishearliest quotation 2014same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEφάλαγξphálanx‘phalanx, a clustered mass of infantry’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEphalanx
- Spanishc. 1500–presentFalange‘phalanx, phalange’
- Englishearliest quotation 2014same form
Earliest quotation: 2014, Bernard A. Cook, Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia: “José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of former Spanish…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- ‘beam, plank’
block, bulk, balcony, plank, fulcrum, balk, phalanges, 15 more
through Latin phalanx
Today it means
name A Spanish fascist movement active in the 1930s until its dissolution in 1977.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek φάλαγξ / Falange