Etymograph

English

hazardry

Hazardry comes from Middle English hasardrie ‘playing of hazard’, and goes back to Middle French hasarderie.

  1. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600hasarderie
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hasardrie‘playing of hazard’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1590hazardry

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600hasarderie
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hasardrie‘playing of hazard’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1590hazardry

Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto I: “Some fell to daunce, some fell to hazardry, /…”

Formed from hazard + -ry

Arabic اَلزَّهْر ‘the dice’

Old French hasart ‘a game of dice’

Middle English hasard

English hazard

Every English word from Middle French hasarderie

Today it means

noun Gambling.

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

Etymograph / Middle French hasarderie / hazardry

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