English
triangular
Triangular comes from Old French triangulaire.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400triangulaire
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500triangulare
- Englishearliest quotation 1963triangular
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400triangulaire
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500triangulare
- Englishearliest quotation 1963triangular
Earliest quotation: 1963, Margery Allingham, Foreword: The Turk Street Mile: “A very neat old woman, still in her good…”
Equivalent to tri- + -angular
Every English word from Old French triangulaire
Today it means
adj Shaped like a triangle.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French triangulaire / triangular