English
fester
Fester comes from Old French festre, and goes back to Latin fistula ‘pipe, tube, especially a water pipe’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistula‘pipe, tube, especially a water pipe’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400festre
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
- Englishearliest quotation 1485fester
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfistula‘pipe, tube, especially a water pipe’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400festre
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
- Englishearliest quotation 1485fester
Earliest quotation: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX: “and she for the despyte of her sones dethe…”
Linked words
through Latin fistula ‘pipe, tube, especially a water pipe’
Today it means
noun A fistula.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fistula / fester