Where does “banderille” come from?
banderille (French) comes from Spanish banderilla, from Spanish bandera, from Spanish banda, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá — to soften, to melt.
banderille (French): banderilla
Definitions
- banderilla
Ancestry of “banderille”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | banderilla | banderilla decorated barbed stick |
| 2 | Spanish | bandera | flag; banner |
| 3 | Spanish | banda | band; gang, band, group; band, sash |
| 4 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 5 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 6 | Italian | là | there |
| 7 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 8 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 9 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 10 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 11 | Hungarian | moll | minor |
| 12 | German | Moll | minor |
| 13 | Medieval Latin | molle | — |
| 14 | Latin | mollis | soft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible,... |
| 15 | Latin | molduis | — |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | moldus | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | *ml̥dus | soft, weak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meld- | to soften, to melt |