The story
- Late Latin · derived frompinnāculum
- Italian · derived frompennacchio
- Middle French · derived frompennache“plume of feathers”
- French · borrowed frompanache
- English todaypanache
Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.
Words from the same roots
Frenchpanache all →
panacherie
Late Latinpinnāculum all →
pinnacle
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.