Etymology

banque

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French banque ← Middle French banque ← Italian banca
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bankiz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*banki
  4. Lombardicbank
  5. Italianbanca
  6. Middle Frenchbanque
  7. Frenchbanque
  8. English todaybanque

Borrowed from French banque (“bank”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchbanque all →

bancor

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.