The story
- Latin · derived fromēlegāns
- Middle French · derived fromelegant
- Middle English · inherited fromelegaunt
- English todayelegant
From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns, collateral form of present participle of ēligere, from ex- (“out of, from”) + legō (“choose, select, appoint”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.