Etymology

silage

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Today it means: Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp. Full definition →

French ensilage ← Spanish ensilar
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromensilar
  2. French · derived fromensilage
  3. English todaysilage

Alteration (probably by influence of silo) of ensilage (1881), itself from French ensilage, from ensiler (“put in a silo”), from Spanish ensilar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.