Etymograph

English

estrade

Estrade comes from French estrade ‘platform, podium’, from Latin sternō ‘spread’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sterh₃-‘to spread’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*str̥néh₃ti‘to strew’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*stornōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsternō‘spread’next step skipped: Latin strātus
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEstrātumperfect passive participle of sternō
  6. Old Spanishc. 950–1500estrado
  7. Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘platform, dais, estrade, stage’
  8. Frenchc. 1600–presentestrade‘platform, podium’
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1885same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sterh₃-‘to spread’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*str̥néh₃ti‘to strew’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*stornōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsternō‘spread’next step skipped: Latin strātus
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEstrātumperfect passive participle of sternō
  6. Old Spanishc. 950–1500estrado
  7. Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘platform, dais, estrade, stage’
  8. Frenchc. 1600–presentestrade‘platform, podium’
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1885same form

Earliest quotation: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: “Then she made the Kalandars sit upon a sofa…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- ‘to spread’

street, straw, strand, sternum, stroma, stratus, substratum, 8 more

through Latin sternō ‘spread’

prostrate, 1 more

through Latin strātum

stratum, 1 more

Today it means

noun A dais or raised platform.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- / estrade

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