The story
- Late Latin · derived fromcarnālis“fleshy”
- Old French · derived fromcharnel
- Middle English · inherited fromcarnal
- English todaycarnal
From Middle English carnal, from Old French charnel, from Late Latin carnālis (“fleshy”), from oblique stem of Latin carō, carnis (“meat, flesh”) + -ālis (whence -al).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchcharnel all →
charnel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.