English
Saturnals
Saturnals comes from Middle French saturnales.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600saturnales
- Englishearliest quotation 1603Saturnals
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600saturnales
- Englishearliest quotation 1603Saturnals
Earliest quotation: 1603, Plutarch, Of the Tranquillity and Contentment of Minde: “In which feaſts and ſolemnities, we uſe to ſit…”
Every English word from Middle French saturnales
Today it means
name Synonym of Saturnalia (“ancient Roman holiday”).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French saturnales / Saturnals