The story
- Latin · derived fromcastus“pure”
- Old French · derived fromchaste“morally pure”
- Middle English · inherited fromchaste
- English todaychaste
From Middle English chaste, from Old French chaste (“morally pure”), from Latin castus (“pure”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchchaste all →
cast
Latincastus all →
castecastaagnus castus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.