Etymology

battlemage

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Today it means: A wizard specializing in close magical combat. Full definition →

English mage ← Middle English batayle ← Old French bataille
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-
  2. Latinbattuō
  3. Late Latinbattālia
  4. Old Frenchbataille
  5. Middle Englishbatayle
  6. Englishbattle
  7. Englishmage
  8. English todaybattlemage

From battle + mage.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.