The story
- Late Latin · derived fromcofia“cap”
- Old French · derived fromcoife
- French · borrowed fromcoiffeur
- English todaycoiffeur
Borrowed from French coiffeur, from coiffer, from Old French coife, from Late Latin cofia (“cap”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchcoife all →
coif
Late Latincofia all →
coif
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.