Etymology

baguette

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Today it means: A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape. Full definition →

French baguette ← Italian bacchetta ← Vulgar Latin *baclitta
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  1. Latinbaculum
  2. Vulgar Latin*baclitta
  3. Italianbacchetta
  4. Frenchbaguette
  5. English todaybaguette

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.