{"id":7122,"date":"2012-06-12T16:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:16:01","slug":"parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7122","title":{"rendered":"Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I saw a couple of parades &#8211; a small and rather damp one in Bangor on Saturday that was part of the Bangor Carnival &#8211; and a rather bigger and more elaborate one on Sunday in Manchester that was part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/themanchesterdayparade.co.uk\/\">Manchester Day<\/a> celebrations. This got me wondering about the origins of the word <strong>parade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=parade\">Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a> <strong>parade<\/strong> meant &#8220;a show of bravado&#8221; and &#8220;an assembly of troops for inspections&#8221; in the 1650s, and comes from the French word <em>parade<\/em> (a display, show, military parade). This comes either via Middle French, via the Italian <em>parate<\/em> (a warding or defending, a garish setting forth) or the Spanish <em>parada<\/em> (a staying or stopping), from the Vulgar Latin <em>*parata<\/em>, from the Latin <em>parer<\/em> (arrange, prepare, adorn). Parade came to be applied to non-military processions in the 1670s. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=pare&#038;allowed_in_frame=0\"><em>Parer<\/em><\/a> comes from the Latin <em>parare<\/em> (to make ready), via the Old French <em>parer<\/em> (to arrange, prepare, trim), from the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*per-<\/em> (to bring forward\/forth).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I saw a couple of parades &#8211; a small and rather damp one in Bangor on Saturday that was part of the Bangor Carnival &#8211; and a rather bigger and more elaborate one on Sunday in Manchester that was part of the Manchester Day celebrations. This got me wondering about the origins of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,128,10,15,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}