The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκάνδαλον“scandal”
- Ecclesiastical Latin · derived fromscandalum“stumbling block, temptation”
- Old French · derived fromesclandre
- Middle English · inherited fromslaundre
- English todayslander
From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchesclandre all →
disslander
Ecclesiastical Latinscandalum all →
scandalscandalous
Ancient Greekσκάνδαλον all →
scandal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.