English
hazarder
Hazarder comes from Middle French hasardeur.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600hasardeur
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hasardour‘one who plays hazard or participates in gambling’
- Englishearliest quotation 1913hazarder
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600hasardeur
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hasardour‘one who plays hazard or participates in gambling’
- Englishearliest quotation 1913hazarder
Earliest quotation: 1913, W. Compton Leith, Sirenica: “Meeting his doom so, the great hazarder fulfils a…”
Every English word from Middle French hasardeur
Today it means
noun One who ventures or hazards.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French hasardeur / hazarder