English
fortilage
Fortilage comes from Latin fortalitia.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfortalitia
- Englishearliest quotation 1590fortilage
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfortalitia
- Englishearliest quotation 1590fortilage
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book II, Canto XII: “Yet was the fence thereof but weake and thin…”
The story
Variant (influenced by -age) of fortalice, borrowed from Latin fortalitia.
Every English word from Latin fortalitia
Today it means
noun A little fort; a blockhouse.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fortalitia / fortilage