The story
- Latin · derived fromdistrictus
- Medieval Latin · derived fromdistrictus“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”
- French · borrowed fromdistrict
- English todaydistrict
From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”). Doublet of Detroit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.