Etymology

blasphemer

B3L1A1S1P3H4E1M3E1R1

Today it means: One who commits blasphemy; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to be God. Full definition →

Middle English blasfemour ← Old French blasfemeor
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old French · derived fromblasfemeor
  2. Middle English · inherited fromblasfemour
  3. English todayblasphemer

From Middle English blasfemour, from Old French blasfemeor; equivalent to blaspheme + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.