Etymology

minibattle

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Today it means: A minor battle. Full definition →

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

  1. Italianminiatura
  2. Englishminiature
  3. Englishmini-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-
  5. Latinbattuō
  6. Late Latinbattālia
  7. Old Frenchbataille
  8. Middle Englishbatayle
  9. Englishbattle
  10. English todayminibattle

From mini- + battle.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.