English
blasé
Blasé comes from French blasé ‘blasé, jaded’, from blaser ‘to blunt, dull’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰleh₁-‘to blow’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*blāsan‘to blow’reconstructed
- Old Dutchc. 500–1150*blāsan‘to blow’reconstructed
- Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500blâsen‘to blow, sound, brag’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentblaser‘to blunt, dull’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentblasé‘blasé, jaded’past participle of blaser
- Englishearliest quotation 1847blasé
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰleh₁-‘to blow’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*blāsan‘to blow’reconstructed
- Old Dutchc. 500–1150*blāsan‘to blow’reconstructed
- Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500blâsen‘to blow, sound, brag’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentblaser‘to blunt, dull’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentblasé‘blasé, jaded’past participle of blaser
- Englishearliest quotation 1847blasé
Earliest quotation: 1847, Eugène Sue, Lumineau: “Are people who are blasé ever in love? Just…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’
blow, inflation, flavor, flux, fluent, bliss, blast, bladder, confluence, fluency, feeble, inflate, fluvial, flatulence, soufflé, blithely, conflate, bleat, blare, blather, 45 more
through Proto-West Germanic *blāsan ‘to blow’
Today it means
adj Unimpressed, indifferent, especially because of overfamiliarity.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- / blasé