Where does “pale” come from?

pale (Old French) comes from Latin pallidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.

pale (Old French): pale, whitish or having little color

Definitions

  1. pale, whitish or having little color

Ancestry of “pale”, step by step

pale traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin pallidus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpalliduspale, pallid, wan; that makes or causes a pale...
2Latin-idustending to
3Proto-Italic*-iðos—

via Latin pallere

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpallerepresent active infinitive of palleō; to be pale

Words derived from “pale”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-iðos →Every word from Latin -idus →Every word from Latin pallidus →