The story
- Latin · derived frombrūtus“heavy”
- Old French · derived frombrut
- Middle French · derived frombrut
- French · borrowed frombrut“raw”
- English todaybrut
From French brut (“raw”), from Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“heavy”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Frenchbrut all →
brute
Old Frenchbrut all →
brute
Latinbrūtus all →
brutalbruteBrutus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.