Etymology

boscage

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Today it means: A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket. Full definition →

Middle English boskage ← Old French boscage ← Vulgar Latin *boscāticum
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*buskaz“forest, woods”
  2. Frankish · derived from*busk
  3. Late Latin · derived fromboscus
  4. Vulgar Latin · derived from*boscāticum
  5. Old French · derived fromboscage
  6. Middle English · inherited fromboskage
  7. English todayboscage

From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).

Words from the same roots

Late Latinboscus all →

bosqueemboss

Frankish*busk all →

ambushrebukeambuscadebosket

Proto-Germanic*buskaz all →

ambushrebukebosqueembossambuscadeboskbosketébauche

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.