Etymology

fragrance

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Today it means: A pleasant smell or odour. Full definition →

French fragrance ← Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantia ← Latin fragrāns
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreh₁g-
  2. Latinfragrō
  3. Latinfragrāns
  4. Ecclesiastical Latinfragrantia
  5. Frenchfragrance
  6. English todayfragrance

Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.