The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*kréh₂-tis“fenced handiwork”
- Latin · derived fromcrāticula“grating, grill”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromgrātīcula
- French · borrowed fromgraticule
- English todaygraticule
Borrowed from French graticule, from Medieval Latin grātīcula, from Latin crāticula (“grating, grill”), from crātis (“hurdle; wickerwork”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *kréh₂-tis (“fenced handiwork”)) + -cula (feminine form of -culus, a variant of -ulus (“diminutive suffix”)).
Words from the same roots
Latincrāticula all →
grillcreelcraticular
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.