The story
- French · derived fromgoitreux“goitered”
- Latin · derived fromguttur
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*gutturiō
- Old French · derived fromgoitron“throat, neck, goitre”
- English todaygoitre
Borrowed from French, either from Old French goitron (“throat, neck, goitre”), itself from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem (“throat, goitre-like protrusions”), from Latin guttur, or a back-formation from French goitreux (“goitered”).
Words from the same roots
Latinguttur all →
gutturalgutturize
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.