The story
- Latin · derived fromcorrōdere“to gnaw”
- Old French · derived fromcorroder
- Middle English · inherited fromcorrōden
- English todaycorrode
From Middle English corrōden, that borrowed from Old French corroder or directly from Latin corrōdere (“to gnaw”), from con- (“completely”) + rōdere (“to gnaw”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.