English
tirade
Tirade comes from French tirade ‘monologue, speech, tirade’, from tirer ‘to draw, drag, pull’, and ultimately from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre.
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tīrāre‘to pull, draw’reconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400tirer‘to pull’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600same form‘to pull’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘to draw, drag, pull’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenttirade‘monologue, speech, tirade’
- Englishearliest quotation 1897same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tīrāre‘to pull, draw’reconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400tirer‘to pull’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600same form‘to pull’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘to draw, drag, pull’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenttirade‘monologue, speech, tirade’
- Englishearliest quotation 1897same form
Earliest quotation: 1897, Winston Churchill: “Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *der- ‘to tear, to crack, to shatter’
truck, turd, dermatology, tarn, dermatitis, pander, dermis, derm, 16 more
through Proto-Germanic *teraną ‘to tear’
through Old French tirer ‘to pull’
through French tirer ‘to draw, drag, pull’
Today it means
noun A long, angry or violent speech.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Vulgar Latin *tīrāre / tirade