Skip to content

wildfire

Today it means: A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area. Full definition →

Middle English wilde fyr ← Old English wilde fȳr

Ask AI about its historyChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Grok

The story

Old English · inherited fromwilde fȳr
Middle English · inherited fromwilde fyr
English todaywildfire

Inherited from Middle English wilde fyr, wilde fire, wylde fyre, from Old English wilde fȳr. By surface analysis, wild + fire.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.