Etymology

parquet

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Today it means: A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern. Full definition →

French parquet ← Middle French parc ← Old French parc
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The story

  1. Frankish*parrukbor.?
  2. Frankish*parrikbor.?
  3. Latin*parra
  4. Early Medieval Latinpar(ri)cus
  5. Old Frenchparc
  6. Middle Frenchparc
  7. Frenchparc
  8. Frenchparquet
  9. English todayparquet

Borrowed from French parquet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.