Etymology

arête

Today it means: A very thin ridge of rock. Full definition →

French arête ← Latin arista
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromarista
  2. French · borrowed fromarête
  3. English todayarête

Borrowed from French arête, from Latin arista. Doublet of arista.

Words from the same roots

Latinarista all →

arrisaristiform

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.