The story
- Latin · derived fromcaro“flesh”
- French · derived fromcharogne
- Italian · derived fromcarogna“carrion”
- English todayquarrons
Unknown. Possibly from Italian carogna (“carrion”) or French charogne, caroigne (“carrion”); hence from Latin caro (“flesh”). If so, cognate with English carrion, carnage.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.