The story
- Latin · derived frombirotus“chariot”
- Late Latin · derived from*birotium
- Italian · derived frombaroccio
- German · borrowed fromBarutsche
- English todaybarouche
From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.