The story
- Latin · derived fromfocus“hearth”
- Late Latin · derived fromfocārius
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*focārium
- French · borrowed fromfoyer“hearth, lobby”
- English todayfoyer
Borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish hogar (“home”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.