Etymograph

English

ballade

Ballade comes from French ballade ‘ballade (lyric poem)’, from Provençal balada ‘song for dancing’, and ultimately from Late Latin ballō ‘to dance’.

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEballōas ballare‘to dance’
  2. Provençalprehistoric (reconstructed)balada‘song for dancing’reconstructed
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400balade
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentballade‘ballade (lyric poem)’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1892ballade

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEballōas ballare‘to dance’
  2. Provençalprehistoric (reconstructed)balada‘song for dancing’reconstructed
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400balade
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentballade‘ballade (lyric poem)’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1892ballade

Earliest quotation: 1892, Walter Besant, Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?: “Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- ‘to throw’

symbol, devil, metabolic, emblem, ballet, hyperbolic, quail, parable, ballistic, quill, parabolic, embolism, anabolic, obelisk, quell, metabolize, pul, hyperbola, ballista, 65 more

Today it means

noun Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.

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

Etymograph / Late Latin ballō / ballade

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