Etymograph

English

laurel

Laurel comes from Middle English laurer, and goes back to Old Latin dacrus.

  1. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEdacrus
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaurus
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*laurāriusreconstructed
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400lorier
  5. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400lorer
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500laurer
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1866laurel

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEdacrus
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaurus
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*laurāriusreconstructed
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400lorier
  5. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400lorer
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500laurer
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1866laurel

Earliest quotation: 1866, Archibald Fergusson, The crusher' and the Cross: “In this regiment there was a young corporal, a…”

Every English word from Old Latin dacrus

Today it means

noun An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.

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Etymograph / Old Latin dacrus / laurel

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