Etymology

bastardise

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English bastard ← Middle English bastard ← Old French bastard
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The story

  1. Latinbastardus
  2. Old Frenchbastard
  3. Middle Englishbastard
  4. Englishbastard
  5. English todaybastardise

From bastard + -ise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.