Old French words first recorded in the 13th century

It is borrowed from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners and conduct”), a learned word. The Latin adjective was formed by Cicero from mōs (“custom, manner”) and -ālis to render Ancient Greek ἠθικός…

It is a Norman and Anglo-Norman word, borrowed from Old Norse veifa (“to swing about, wave”) or from a related North Germanic word, according to Wiktionary. The FEW puts it in the family of the Old…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *coacticō (“to press together”), an intensive of coāctō (“to compel”), itself a frequentative of cōgō (“to compel”). The last is formed from com- and agō. Bloch and…

It is borrowed from Late Latin lūnāticus (“moonstruck, epileptic”), a derivative of lūna (“moon”) with the suffix -āticus. The Latin adjective meant "moonstruck, epileptic" in the Digest and the…

It is borrowed from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), which Du Cange records in Medieval Latin texts for cotton, the down of the cotton shrub. Etymonline takes the Latin noun for an altered and…

It is borrowed from Middle Dutch bloc (“felled tree trunk”), modern Dutch blok; the DEAF and the FEW give the Dutch word as the etymon. The TLFi and the DHLF suggest that its several senses may have…

It is formed from Old French ordener + -ance, the verb meaning “to arrange, order”. The FEW files it under the source of the verb, Latin ordinō (“to arrange, put in order”), and Van Daele gives an…

It is borrowed from Late Latin vērificō (“to present as true”). Gamillscheg calls the source Medieval Latin and dates the French word to the 14th century. The Latin verb, first recorded in the 5th…

It is borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“sounding, having a voice”), from vōx (“voice”) and the suffix -ālis. Used as a noun the Latin adjective meant “vowel”, short for “sounding letter”, a calque of…

It is formed from Old French en- + seur (“sure, safe”), a verb made on the adjective. The adjective is from Latin sēcūrus (“free from care”), itself made of sē- (“without”) and cūra (“care”). The…

It is borrowed from Late Latin partiālis (“forming a part”), from pars (“part”). In Medieval Latin the adjective also meant "of one party, factious". Bloch and Wartburg note that the partisan sense…

It is an Anglo-French word, recorded only in England. Wiktionary takes it as a variant, from Old French esvuidier (“to empty”), and Rothwell describes it as the same verb with a different prefix, a-…

It is borrowed from Latin annūllō (“to annihilate, annul”). Bloch and Wartburg take it from Medieval Latin and note that the Latin verb is rare in late antiquity; Lewis and Short cite it from the…