Etymology

pantaloon

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Today it means: An aging buffoon. Full definition →

French pantalon ← Italian Pantalone ← Spanish Pantaleon
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromPantaleon
  2. Italian · derived fromPantalone
  3. French · borrowed frompantalon
  4. English todaypantaloon

Borrowed from French pantalon, from Italian Pantalone (a character in Commedia dell'arte), from Spanish Pantaleon (surname).

Words from the same roots

Frenchpantalon all →

pants

ItalianPantalone all →

pantspantalone

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.