The story
- Italian · derived fromgrottesco
- French · borrowed fromgrotesquerie
- English todaygrotesquerie
From French grotesquerie, from grotesque (“farcical, grotesque”) + -erie (“-ery”), from Italian grottesco, from grotta (“cave, grotto”) + -esco (“-esque, -ish”). Equivalent to grotesque + -erie.
Words from the same roots
Italiangrottesco all →
grotesque
First known use, by meaning
- 1655 Grotesque things collectively.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.