English
embarkment
Embarkment comes from French embarquement ‘boarding’, from barque ‘small boat’, and ultimately from Middle French barque.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600barque
- Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘small boat’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentembarquer‘to board’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentembarquement‘boarding’
- Englishearliest quotation 1741embarkment
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600barque
- Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘small boat’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentembarquer‘to board’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentembarquement‘boarding’
- Englishearliest quotation 1741embarkment
Earliest quotation: 1741, Conyers Middleton: “he removed from his Cuman to his Pompeian villa,…”
Linked words
through Ancient Greek βᾶρις ‘baris’
through Late Latin barca ‘baris’
through Middle French barque
Today it means
noun embarkation; the act of setting out
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French barque / embarkment