The story
- French · derived frompatté
- English todaypatté
French patté, from patte (“paw, foot”). Compare English patten.
Words from the same roots
Frenchpatté all →
patte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
patté
Today it means: Narrow at the inner end, and very broad at the other end, or having its arms of that shape Full definition →
French patté