Etymograph

English

affret

Affret comes from Italian affrettare ‘to hasten, hurry up, speed up, quicken, rush’, and goes back to Vulgar Latin frictus.

  1. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEfrictus
  2. Vulgar Latin, derivedc. 100–700 CEfrictare
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentfretta‘hurry, haste, rush’
  4. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentaffrettare‘to hasten, hurry up, speed up, quicken, rush’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1590affret

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEfrictus
  2. Vulgar Latin, derivedc. 100–700 CEfrictare
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentfretta‘hurry, haste, rush’
  4. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentaffrettare‘to hasten, hurry up, speed up, quicken, rush’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1590affret

Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser: “And, passing forward with furious affret, / Pierst through…”

Linked words

through Vulgar Latin frictus

frittata, 5 more

Today it means

noun An attack.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Vulgar Latin frictus / affret

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