The story
- Latincombustus
- Middle Frenchcombust
- English todaycombust
From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Middle French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up, to burn away”, transitive), whence also English combure. The verb was originally transitive.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.