The story
- Latin · derived fromdorsum“back of the body”
- French · borrowed fromdossard
- English todaydossard
Borrowed from French dossard, from dos (“back (of a person)”) (ultimately from Latin dorsum (“back of the body”), further etymology uncertain) + -ard (suffix forming nouns indicating things belonging to or representing particular classes or sorts).
Words from the same roots
Latindorsum all →
dorsumdorso-dos a dosdosser
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.