The story
- Old French · derived fromdetail
- Middle French · borrowed fromdétail
- English todaydetail
Borrowed from Middle French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”). Compare typologically Bulgarian подробност (podrobnost), Czech podrobnost, Russian подро́бность (podróbnostʹ) (akin to дроби́ть (drobítʹ)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.