The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromalmicantarath
- French · borrowed fromalmicantarat
- Middle English · borrowed fromalmicanteras
- English todayalmucantar
From Middle English almicanteras, French almicantarat, almucantarat, from Medieval Latin almicantarath, almucantarath, from Arabic المقنطرات (almuqanṭarāt, “circles of celestial latitude”), from قَنْطَرَة (qanṭara, “arch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.