English
interlude
Interlude comes from Latin lūdō ‘to play’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElūdō‘to play’
- Englishearliest quotation 1632interlude
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElūdō‘to play’
- Englishearliest quotation 1632interlude
Earliest quotation: 1632, Actus 3, Scena Sexta: “[O]ur ovvne Statutes […] preciſely prohibit the ſatyricall depraving,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *loidō ‘to play’
through Latin lūdō ‘to play’
illusion, elusive, collusion, delusion, ludicrous, prelude, elude, allude, collude, allusive, 18 more
Today it means
noun An intervening episode, etc.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lūdō / interlude