mozzetta

The story

1. Italian · borrowed frommozzette
2. Italian · derived from-etta
3. Late Latin · derived fromalmucia“hood or cape with a hood worn by clergy”
4. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*mewt-“cut short”
5. Latin · derived frommutilus“mutilated”
6. Vulgar Latin · derived from*mutius
7. Italian · derived frommozzo“cut off; shortened”
8. Italian · borrowed frommozzetta
9. French · borrowed frommozzete
10. English todaymozzetta

Borrowed from a merger of French mozzete (obsolete) (modern French mosette, mossette), and from its etymon Italian mozzetta; further etymology uncertain, possibly either: * from Italian mozzo (“cut off; shortened”, adjective) (from Vulgar Latin *mutius, from Latin mutilus (“mutilated”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mewt- (“cut short”)); or * from Late Latin almucia (“hood or cape with a hood worn by clergy”) (further etymology unknown) + Italian -etta (feminine form of -etto (diminutive suffix)). The plural form mozzette is borrowed from Italian mozzette. Doublet of mosette.

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