The story
- Latin · derived fromferrātus“ironed”
- Medieval Latin · derived frommodius
- Galician · borrowed fromferrado
- English todayferrado
From Galician ferrado, from Medieval Latin modius ferrātus (“reinforced modius”), from Latin ferrātus (“ironed”), from ferrum (“iron”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Words from the same roots
Latinferrātus all →
ferritin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.