The story
- Latin · derived fromcanthus
- Old French · derived fromchanfraindre
- Middle French · borrowed fromchanfrain
- English todaychamfer
Back-formation from chamfering, from Middle French chanfrain, from Middle French, Old French chanfraindre, possibly a compound of chant (“corner”), from Latin canthus (of either Celtic or Latin origin) + fraindre (“to break”), from frangō (“to break”).
Words from the same roots
Latincanthus all →
cantho-canthus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.