English
pardale
Pardale comes from Latin pardalis.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpardalis
- Englishearliest quotation 1590pardale
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpardalis
- Englishearliest quotation 1590pardale
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book I, Canto VI: “The pardale swift, and the tyger cruel.”
Every English word from Latin pardalis
Today it means
noun A leopard.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pardalis / pardale