Etymology: < fade v.¹

Etymology: ? < fade v.¹

Etymology: Etymology unknown; the senses assigned are somewhat uncertain, and perhaps the examples do not all contain the same word.

Etymology: < French fade vapid, insipid, dull, faded; according to M. Gaston Paris ( Mém. de la Soc. de Ling. I. 90) representing Latin vapidum (see vapid adj.); compare Old French rade < Latin rapidum, maussade < Latin male sapidum. The great difficulty is the anomalous representation of Latin v by f ; the apparent parallel in Old French feiz (modern fois ) < vicem is questionable, the f in that case being probably due to sentence-combination. The ordinary view that fade descends from Latin fatuum foolish, also insipid (whence Provençal fatz feminine fade , in same senses), is inadmissible on phonological grounds; but it is possible that early confusion with this word may have given rise to the change of v into f . No Old French *vade has been found: if it existed it would explain the English vade , variant of fade v.¹, which is otherwise difficult to account for, as the English dialects that have v for f usually retain f in Romanic words. Compare French dialect (Lyons) vadou (feminine vadoussi), representing Latin type *vapidōsum.

Etymology: < Old French fade-r, < fade fade adj.²

Etymology: Old English fadian < West Germanic type *fadôjan, < *fada (Old High German vata) state, condition; compare Old High German keunvatôn to discompose, confound.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a variant of English regional (Cornwall) faddy to dance through the streets, to dance the furry dance (compare furry n.²); compare English regional (Cornwall) faddy, noun denoting the dance, and Cornish fadia (verb) to dance through the street, faddy, noun denoting the dance, although these are themselves of uncertain origin.