Etymology

banquette

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Today it means: A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers. Full definition →

French banquette ← Italian banchetta ← Lombardic bank
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bankiz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*banki
  4. Lombardicbank
  5. Italianbanca
  6. Italianbanchetta
  7. Frenchbanquette
  8. English todaybanquette

Borrowed from French banquette, the diminutive form of banc; by surface analysis, bank + -ette.

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