English
palisade
Palisade comes from Old Occitan palissada.
- Old Occitanc. 950–1500palissada
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600palissade
- Englishearliest quotation 1871palisade
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Occitanc. 950–1500palissada
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600palissade
- Englishearliest quotation 1871palisade
Earliest quotation: 1871, James Fenimore Cooper: “The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that…”
Formed from -ade
The story
Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (‘stake’), probably from pal (‘stake’), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (‘stake’) + -ade.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- ‘to attach, fix’
page, propaganda, compact, peasant, pagan, propagate, pectin, impinge, pala, pagination, impactor, 29 more
through Latin pālus ‘stake’
Today it means
noun A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Occitan palissada / palisade