English
balada
Balada comes from Spanish balada ‘ballad’, from Old Occitan ballada ‘poem for a dance’, and ultimately from Late Latin ballō.
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEballōas ballāre‘to dance’
- Old Occitanc. 950–1500ballada‘poem for a dance’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentballade‘ballade (lyric poem)’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentbalada‘ballad’
- Englishearliest quotation 2007same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEballōas ballāre‘to dance’
- Old Occitanc. 950–1500ballada‘poem for a dance’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentballade‘ballade (lyric poem)’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentbalada‘ballad’
- Englishearliest quotation 2007same form
Earliest quotation: 2007, Alex Mindlin, Yearning to Break the Lock on a Long-Shuttered Park: “All the time they complain about it,” said Rafael…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- ‘to throw’
symbol, devil, metabolic, emblem, ballet, hyperbolic, quail, ballistic, quill, parable, quell, parabolic, embolism, anabolic, obelisk, metabolize, pul, hyperbola, ballista, 63 more
through Late Latin ballō ‘to dance’
through French ballade ‘ballade (lyric poem)’
Today it means
noun A Spanish-language ballad.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Late Latin ballō / balada