The story
- Latin · derived frombattuō“to strike, beat”
- Late Latin · borrowed frombattālia
- English todaybattalia
Borrowed from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“military exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of battle.
Words from the same roots
Late Latinbattālia all →
battlebattel
Latinbattuō all →
batterybattlebattenbasculebattelbaculeimbat
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.