Etymology

domestique

do·mes·tique
D2O1M3E1S1T1I1Q10U1E1

Today it means: A cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team's designated leaders (for example, by riding in front of them to create a slipstream, or to set the pace), even if at the expense of their own individual performance. Full definition →

French domestique ← Latin domesticus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromdomesticus“of the house, domestic; familiar; native”
  2. French · borrowed fromdomestique“domestic servant, maid”
  3. English todaydomestique

Borrowed from French domestique (“domestic servant, maid”), from domestique (“domestic”, adjective), from Latin domesticus (“of the house, domestic; familiar; native”), from domus (“home, house; place of one's birth or residence, native country”). Doublet of domestic.

Words from the same roots

Latindomesticus all →

domesticdomestical

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.