The story
- Late Latin · derived fromballare
- Old Occitan · derived fromballada“poem for a dance”
- French · borrowed fromballade
- English todayballad
From French ballade, from Old Occitan ballada (“poem for a dance”), from Late Latin ballare. Doublet of balada and ballade.
Words from the same roots
Frenchballade all →
ballade
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.