The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dens-“thick, dense”
- Latin · derived fromdēnsus
- Middle French · derived fromdense
- English todaydense
From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.