English
palatable
Palatable comes from Old French palat ‘palate’, and goes back to Latin palātum.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalātum‘palate’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400palat‘palate’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500palate‘the palate’
- English1500–presentpalate
- Englishearliest quotation 1813palatable
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalātum‘palate’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400palat‘palate’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500palate‘the palate’
- English1500–presentpalate
- Englishearliest quotation 1813palatable
Earliest quotation: 1813, Jane Austen, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton: “I did hear, too, that there was a time,…”
A compound of palate + -able
Latin palātum ‘roof of the mouth, palate’
Old French palat
Middle English palate ‘the palate’
English palate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pel-
film, felt, simply, simple, push, filter, powder, fold, complain, pulse, pillow, repeal, flaw, compulsive, pollen, expel, repel, propel, pelt, peloton, palladium, wallow, pall, polemic, palpable, pollinate, tuple, peplum, pulver, pillion, muffle, apoplexy, palp, interpolate, 65 more
Today it means
adj Pleasing to the taste, tasty.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin palātum / palatable