circa 1741, in the meaning defined at sense 11615, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

borrowed from French jade, jadde, earlier éjade (with l'ejade taken as *le jade), borrowed from Spanish (16th-century) (piedra de la) ijada, literally, "stone of the loin"; Spanish ijada "side of the body, flank, loin," going back to Vulgar Latin *īliāta, from Latin īlia, plural, "side of the body from the hips to the groin" + -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate entry 1 — more at ilium

NOTE: The phrase piedra de la ijada occurs notably in Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales ("Medical investigation of the products that have been brought from our West Indies possessions") (Seville, 1565) by the Spanish physician Nicolás Monardes (1493-1588). According to Monardes, this stone, presumed to be nephrite or jadeite, was effective, when held in the hand or worn, in preventing and relieving "dolor de la ijada," pain in the side caused by kidney stones (renal colic). He attributes this use of the stone in America to "los indios," the indigenous inhabitants. Walter raleigh also mentions such stones in The Discovery of Guiana (1596): "These Amazones have likewise great store of these plates of golde, which they recover by exchange chiefly for a kinde of greene stones, which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas, and we use for spleene stones, and for the disease of the stone we also esteeme them …"

from earlier sense "to make a jade of a horse by overwork or abuse," derivative of jade entry 3Middle English, of obscure origin

circa 1741, in the meaning defined at sense 11615, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

borrowed from French jade, jadde, earlier éjade (with l'ejade taken as *le jade), borrowed from Spanish (16th-century) (piedra de la) ijada, literally, "stone of the loin"; Spanish ijada "side of the body, flank, loin," going back to Vulgar Latin *īliāta, from Latin īlia, plural, "side of the body from the hips to the groin" + -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate entry 1 — more at ilium

NOTE: The phrase piedra de la ijada occurs notably in Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales ("Medical investigation of the products that have been brought from our West Indies possessions") (Seville, 1565) by the Spanish physician Nicolás Monardes (1493-1588). According to Monardes, this stone, presumed to be nephrite or jadeite, was effective, when held in the hand or worn, in preventing and relieving "dolor de la ijada," pain in the side caused by kidney stones (renal colic). He attributes this use of the stone in America to "los indios," the indigenous inhabitants. Walter raleigh also mentions such stones in The Discovery of Guiana (1596): "These Amazones have likewise great store of these plates of golde, which they recover by exchange chiefly for a kinde of greene stones, which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas, and we use for spleene stones, and for the disease of the stone we also esteeme them …"

from earlier sense "to make a jade of a horse by overwork or abuse," derivative of jade entry 3Middle English, of obscure origin

circa 1741, in the meaning defined at sense 11615, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

borrowed from French jade, jadde, earlier éjade (with l'ejade taken as *le jade), borrowed from Spanish (16th-century) (piedra de la) ijada, literally, "stone of the loin"; Spanish ijada "side of the body, flank, loin," going back to Vulgar Latin *īliāta, from Latin īlia, plural, "side of the body from the hips to the groin" + -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate entry 1 — more at ilium

NOTE: The phrase piedra de la ijada occurs notably in Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales ("Medical investigation of the products that have been brought from our West Indies possessions") (Seville, 1565) by the Spanish physician Nicolás Monardes (1493-1588). According to Monardes, this stone, presumed to be nephrite or jadeite, was effective, when held in the hand or worn, in preventing and relieving "dolor de la ijada," pain in the side caused by kidney stones (renal colic). He attributes this use of the stone in America to "los indios," the indigenous inhabitants. Walter raleigh also mentions such stones in The Discovery of Guiana (1596): "These Amazones have likewise great store of these plates of golde, which they recover by exchange chiefly for a kinde of greene stones, which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas, and we use for spleene stones, and for the disease of the stone we also esteeme them …"

from earlier sense "to make a jade of a horse by overwork or abuse," derivative of jade entry 3Middle English, of obscure origin

circa 1741, in the meaning defined at sense 11615, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

borrowed from French jade, jadde, earlier éjade (with l'ejade taken as *le jade), borrowed from Spanish (16th-century) (piedra de la) ijada, literally, "stone of the loin"; Spanish ijada "side of the body, flank, loin," going back to Vulgar Latin *īliāta, from Latin īlia, plural, "side of the body from the hips to the groin" + -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate entry 1 — more at ilium

NOTE: The phrase piedra de la ijada occurs notably in Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales ("Medical investigation of the products that have been brought from our West Indies possessions") (Seville, 1565) by the Spanish physician Nicolás Monardes (1493-1588). According to Monardes, this stone, presumed to be nephrite or jadeite, was effective, when held in the hand or worn, in preventing and relieving "dolor de la ijada," pain in the side caused by kidney stones (renal colic). He attributes this use of the stone in America to "los indios," the indigenous inhabitants. Walter raleigh also mentions such stones in The Discovery of Guiana (1596): "These Amazones have likewise great store of these plates of golde, which they recover by exchange chiefly for a kinde of greene stones, which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas, and we use for spleene stones, and for the disease of the stone we also esteeme them …"

from earlier sense "to make a jade of a horse by overwork or abuse," derivative of jade entry 3Middle English, of obscure origin