The story
- Latin · derived fromTrāiectum ad Rhēnum“Crossing-on-the-Rhine”
- Dutch · borrowed fromUtrecht
- English todayUtrecht
From Dutch Utrecht, from Middle Dutch and Old Dutch variants of ūt (“out, outside”) + Latin Trāiectum ad Rhēnum (“Crossing-on-the-Rhine”), the Roman fort at the location, from trāicere (“to cross, to send across”), from trāns- (“trans-: through, across”) + iacere (“to throw”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.