Etymology

lunge

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Today it means: A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword. Full definition →

French allonge ← Old French alonge ← Vulgar Latin *allongare
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlongus
  2. Late Latin · derived fromlongare
  3. Vulgar Latin · derived from*allongare
  4. Old French · derived fromalonge
  5. French · derived fromallonge
  6. English todaylunge

From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus. Doublet of allonge.

Words from the same roots

Frenchallonge all →

allonge

Latinlongus all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.