From names to words

delilah

Delilah coaxed the secret of his strength out of Samson and sold it to the Philistines; her name became English shorthand for a seductive, treacherous woman, and French made her the heroine of an opera.

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The road to English

From Late Latin to French

600 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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