Etymograph

English

frescade

Frescade comes from Italian fresco ‘cool’, from Vulgar Latin *friscum ‘fresh’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preyskos.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*preyskosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*friskaz‘fresh’reconstructed
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*friscum‘fresh’reconstructed
  4. Italianc. 1300–presentfresco‘cool’
  5. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfrescata
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentfrescade
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1881same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*preyskosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*friskaz‘fresh’reconstructed
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*friscum‘fresh’reconstructed
  4. Italianc. 1300–presentfresco‘cool’
  5. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfrescata
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentfrescade
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1881same form

Earliest quotation: 1881, Frank Chapman Bliss: “Here, in this Frescade, will I sit down, with…”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *friskaz ‘fresh’

fresh, frisk, 3 more

Today it means

noun A cool walk.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *preyskos / frescade

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