Etymograph

English

frescade

Frescade comes from Italian fresco ‘cool’, from Vulgar Latin *friscum ‘fresh’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preyskos.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*preyskos1reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*friskaz1‘fresh’reconstructed
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*friscum2‘fresh’reconstructed
  4. Italianc. 1300–presentfresco3‘cool’
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentfrescata3
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentfrescade3
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1881frescade3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin friscum
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Italian fresco
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English frescade
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1881, Frank Chapman Bliss: “Here, in this Frescade, will I sit down, with…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*preyskosWiktionary, Latin friscumreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*friskazWiktionary, Latin friscum‘fresh’reconstructed
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*friscumWiktionary, Italian fresco‘fresh’reconstructed
  4. Italianc. 1300–presentfrescoWiktionary, English frescade‘cool’
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentfrescataWiktionary, English frescade
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentfrescadeWiktionary, English frescade
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1881frescadeWiktionary, English frescade. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1881, Frank Chapman Bliss: “Here, in this Frescade, will I sit down, with…”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *friskaz ‘fresh’

fresh, frisk, 3 more

Today it means

noun A cool walk.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “frescade”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin friscum, Italian fresco. 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 *preyskos / frescade

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