English
en route
En route comes from French en route ‘on one's way, on the way’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presenten route‘on one's way, on the way’
- Englishearliest quotation 2014same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presenten route‘on one's way, on the way’
- Englishearliest quotation 2014same form
Earliest quotation: 2014, Ivan Watson, Loud, anarchic, quirky: My love affair with Istanbul: “Nearly a century ago, my grandfather passed through Istanbul…”
A compound of en ‘in’ + route ‘route’
Latin ruptus ‘broken’
Old French rote ‘route, path’
French route ‘route’
Every English word from French en route
Today it means
prep_phrase On the way.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French en route / en route