The story
- Late Latin · derived fromatterrare“to cast to earth”
- Italian · borrowed fromatterrare
- English todayatterrate
From Italian atterrare. Compare Late Latin atterrare (“to cast to earth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
atterrate
Today it means: To fill up with alluvial earth. Full definition →
Italian atterrare ← Late Latin atterrare