Where did the term bastard come from?

Answer 1

*****...switched around to sound more "less gay"

Answer 2

Here is the Oxford English Dictionary entry:

[a. OF. bastard, mod. bâtard (= Pr. bastard, It., Sp., Pg. bastardo) = fils de bast, ‘pack-saddle child,’ f. bast (see BAST n.2) + the pejorative suffix -ARD. Cf. BANTLING.]

A. n.

1. a. One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child.
By the civil and canon laws, a child born out of wedlock is legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents; but by the law of England, retained in some of the United States, a child to be legitimate must at least be born after the marriage of the parents. bastard eigne or elder: the bastard son of a man who afterwards marries the mother, and has a legitimate son; the latter is called in legal phrase mulier puisne or younger.

1297 R. GLOUC. 295 Of ulke blode Wyllam bastard com. 1362 LANGL. P. Pl. A. VIII. 76 Bringe for Barnes at Bastardes beon holden. c1450 Merlin vii. 112 Thei wolde neuer haue no bastarde to theire kynge. 1528 PERKINS Prof. Bk. i. §49 A bastard eigne who is mulier in the spirituall law. 1601 SHAKES. All's Well II. iii. 100 Sure they are bastards to the English, the French nere got em. 1662 FULLER Worthies I. 322 He confuted their Etymology who deduced Bastard from the Dutch words boes and art, that is an abject Nature, and verifyed their deduction deriving it from besteaerd, that is the best disposition. 1764 BURN Just. Peace s.v., The word bastard seemeth to have been brought unto us by the Saxons; and to be compounded of base, vile or ignoble, and start, or steort signifying a rise or original. 1868 FREEMAN Norm. Conq. II. viii. 210 Spiritual preferments..for cadets or bastards of the royal house.

Answer 3

the circumstance of being born of parents who are not married to one another

A child born out of wedlock.
Something that is of irregular, inferior, or dubious origin.
Slang A person, especially one who is held to be mean or disagreeable.

Middle English, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old Frisian bst, marriage
1223, "illegitimate child," from O.Fr., "child of a nobleman by a woman other than his wife," probably from fils de bast "packsaddle son," meaning a child conceived on an improvised bed (saddles often doubled as beds while traveling), with pejorative ending -art. Alternate possibly is that the word is from P.Gmc. *banstiz "barn," equally suggestive of low origin. Not always regarded as a stigma; the Conqueror is referred to in state documents as "William the Bastard." Figurative sense is from 1552; use as a vulgar term of abuse for a man is attested from 1830. Bastardize "debase" is from 1587.

Answer 4

ORIGIN OF BASTARD..

As per dictionery.com -

Origin: 1250–1300; ME < AF bastard, ML bastardus (from 11th century), perh. < Gmc (Ingvaeonic) *bāst-, presumed var. of *bōst- marriage + OF -ard -ard, taken as signifying the offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan tradition not sanctioned by the church; cf. OFris bost marriage < Gmc *bandstu-, a n. deriv. of IE *bhendh- bind; the traditional explanation of OF bastard as deriv. of fils de bast “child of a packsaddle” is doubtful on chronological and geographical grounds...

Answer 5

In the dictionary it says that the origin is uncertain.

Answer 6

when a child is born and its parents arent married.... probably cam from the renaissance period

Answer 7

it probably comes from england and it means a boy who doesn't
know his father.