English
parallel
Parallel comes from Latin parallēlus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEparallēlus
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600parallèle
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1604parallel
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEparallēlus
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600parallèle
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1604parallel
Earliest quotation: c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure: “[H]is life is paralel’d / Euen with the ſtroke…”
Every English word from Latin parallēlus
Today it means
adj Equally distant from one another at all points.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin parallēlus / parallel