The story
- Late Latin · derived frommantelletum“a short, sleeveless cape or cloak; a mantlet”
- Italian · borrowed frommantelletta
- English todaymantelletta
Borrowed from Italian mantelletta, from mantello (“cloak, mantle”) + -etta (from -etto (diminutive suffix)), probably from Late Latin mantelletum (“a short, sleeveless cape or cloak; a mantlet”). Doublet of mantlet.
Words from the same roots
Italianmantelletta all →
manteletta
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.