Etymograph

English

daurade

Daurade comes from French daurade, from Latin aurātus ‘gilded, golden’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- ‘to dawn, become light, become red’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ews-1‘to dawn, become light, become red’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éws-o-m1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*auzom1‘gold’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaurum2‘gold’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaurō2‘gild, overlay with gold’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaurātus2‘gilded, golden’perfect passive participle of aurō
  7. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaurāta3
  8. Spanishc. 1500–presentdorada3
  9. Frenchc. 1600–presentdaurade3
  10. Englishearliest quotation 2007daurade3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin aurum
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin aurata
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English daurade
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2007, Florence Fabricant, Off the Menu: “The chef, Csar Ramirez, and his partners, Kiwon Standen…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ews-Wiktionary, Latin aurum‘to dawn, become light, become red’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éws-o-mWiktionary, Latin aurumreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*auzomWiktionary, Latin aurum‘gold’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaurumWiktionary, Latin aurata‘gold’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaurōWiktionary, Latin aurata‘gild, overlay with gold’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaurātusWiktionary, Latin aurata‘gilded, golden’perfect passive participle of aurō
  7. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaurātaWiktionary, English daurade
  8. Spanishc. 1500–presentdoradaWiktionary, English daurade
  9. Frenchc. 1600–presentdauradeWiktionary, English daurade
  10. Englishearliest quotation 2007dauradeWiktionary, English daurade. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2007, Florence Fabricant, Off the Menu: “The chef, Csar Ramirez, and his partners, Kiwon Standen…”

The story

Borrowed from French daurade, itself borrowed, through the intermediate of an Italian text, from Spanish dorada, partially from Latin aurāta, and influenced by the verb dorar (‘gild, give a golden color’).

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- ‘to dawn, become light, become red’

air, east, plane, aerial, malaria, exhaust, aria, aero, aurora, aura, austral, 61 more

through Latin aurum ‘gold’

or, oriel, aureus, oriole, aurelia, aurum, 18 more

Today it means

noun sea bream

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “daurade”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin aurum, Latin aurata. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- / daurade

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