Where does “fade” come from?
Fade comes from Middle English fade, from Old French faide and Old French fade, ultimately deriving from Proto-West Germanic faihiþu and Proto-Indo-European roots peyḱ- and póyḱos with the suffix -tós.
fade (English): Weak; insipid; tasteless
Definitions
- Weak; insipid; tasteless
Ancestry of “fade”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | fade | — |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | vade | weak, faint, limp |
| 3 | Old French | fade | weak, witless |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | fatidus | — |
| 5 | Latin | fatuus | foolish, silly, simple; stupid; insipid,... |
| 6 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 7 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |