The story
- Latin · derived frommartulus
- Italian · borrowed frommartellato“hammered”
- English todaymartellato
Borrowed from Italian martellato (“hammered”), from martellare (“to hammer, throb”), from martello (“hammer”), related to Latin martulus, marculus (“small hammer”), diminutive of marcus (“hammer”).
Words from the same roots
Latinmartulus all →
martel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.