English
affrap
Affrap comes from Italian affrappare.
- Italianc. 1300–presentaffrappare
- Englishearliest quotation 1590affrap
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Italianc. 1300–presentaffrappare
- Englishearliest quotation 1590affrap
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto II: “I have been trained up in warlike stowre, /…”
Every English word from Italian affrappare
Today it means
verb To strike; to strike down.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Italian affrappare / affrap