Etymology

tirade

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Today it means: A long, angry or violent speech. Full definition →

French tirade ← Middle French tirer ← Old French tirer
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*der-
  2. Proto-Germanic*teranąbor.?
  3. Vulgar Latin*tīrāre
  4. Old Frenchtirer
  5. Middle Frenchtirer
  6. Frenchtirer
  7. Frenchtirade
  8. English todaytirade

Borrowed from French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.