The story
- Late Latin · derived fromFranciscus
- Italian · borrowed fromFrancesca“Frances”
- English todayFrancesca
Borrowed from Italian Francesca (“Frances”), the feminine form of Francesco (“Francis”), from Late Latin Franciscus, from Francia (“France”) + -iscus (“-ish”). Doublet of Frances and Francisca.
Words from the same roots
Late LatinFranciscus all →
Frances
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.