Etymology

cutlery

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Today it means: Sharp cutting utensils. Full definition →

Middle English cotellerie ← Old French coutelerie
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromcoutelerie
  2. Middle English · inherited fromcotellerie
  3. English todaycutlery

From Middle English cotellerie, cutleri (“the cutler’s art or craft”), from Old French coutelerie (modern French coutellerie).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.