The story
- Old French · derived fromentraper
- Middle French · borrowed fromentrapper
- English todayentrap
From Middle French entrapper, entraper, from Old French entraper, antraper (“catch in a trap”), equivalent to en- + trap. Compare Middle English bitrappen, from Old English betræppan (“to catch in a trap, entrap”), from the same West Germanic source (see Modern English betrap).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.