The story
- Latin · derived fromdēmorārī“to tarry”
- Old French · derived fromdemorage
- English todaydemurrage
1640s, from Old French demorage, from demorer (English demur), from Latin dēmorārī (“to tarry”). By surface analysis, demur (“delay”) + -age, with doubled ‘r’ to clarify pronunciation and avoid ambiguity with demure.
Words from the same roots
Latindēmorārī all →
demur
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.