The story
- Latin · derived fromprātum“meadow”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*prataria
- Old French · derived frompraerie
- French · borrowed fromprairie
- English todayprairie
Borrowed from French prairie, from Old French praerie, from Vulgar Latin *prataria, from Latin prātum (“meadow”) + -aria.
Words from the same roots
Latinprātum all →
prattpraterportobello
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.