bland
German (Berlin)
adj
Definitions
- (medicine) bland
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin blandus (pleasant, flattering).
Origin
Latin
blandus
Gloss
pleasant, flattering
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bland English
- blande Latin
- blandiloquium Latin
- blandiloquus Latin
- blandior Latin
- blanditer Latin
- blanditia Latin
- blandities Latin
- blandus Latin
- perblandus Latin
- blando Italian
- blando Spanish, Castilian
- *mland- Proto-Indo-European
- blând Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- brando Old Portuguese
- blãndã Aromanian
- blando Ladino