Etymology

birrus

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Today it means: A coarse kind of thick woollen cloak, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages. Full definition →

Late Latin birrus ← Gaulish *birros ← Proto-Celtic *birros
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*birros“short”
  2. Gaulish · derived from*birros
  3. Late Latin · borrowed frombirrus“a kind of cloak”
  4. English todaybirrus

Borrowed from Late Latin birrus (“a kind of cloak”), from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”).

Words from the same roots

Late Latinbirrus all →

beret

Proto-Celtic*birros all →

beret

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