Etymology

Mahometan

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Renaissance Latin Mahomētānus
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The story

  1. Renaissance Latin · borrowed fromMahomētānus
  2. English todayMahometan

From Renaissance Latin Mahomētānus. By surface analysis, Mahomet + -an.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.