English
Hamlet
Hamlet comes from Latin Amlethus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEAmlethus
- EnglishtodayHamlet
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEAmlethus
- EnglishtodayHamlet
The story
From Latin Amlethus, as written by 13th-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, and borrowed into English by way of François de Belleforest's French Hamlet, originally rendered as Hamblet in English.
Every English word from Latin Amlethus
Today it means
name A William Shakespeare play about the Danish royal family.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Amlethus / Hamlet