English
palate
Palate comes from Latin palātum ‘roof of the mouth, palate’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalātum‘roof of the mouth, palate’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400palat
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500palate‘the palate’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1602palate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalātum‘roof of the mouth, palate’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400palat
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500palate‘the palate’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1602palate
Earliest quotation: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida: “Not palating the taste of her dishonour”.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pel-
film, felt, simple, simply, push, powder, fold, pulse, filter, complain, pillow, repeal, pollen, flaw, compulsive, expel, repel, propel, pelt, peloton, palpable, polemic, palladium, wallow, tuple, pall, muffle, apoplexy, peplum, pulver, pillion, pollinate, palp, interpolate, 65 more
Today it means
noun A part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analogous to the palate of vertebrates.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin palātum / palate