Etymology

ratatouille

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Today it means: A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant. Full definition →

French ratatouille ← Occitan ratatolha ← Latin tudiculō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*tud-
  2. Latin · derived fromtudiculō“grind, mix”
  3. Occitan · derived fromratatolha
  4. French · borrowed fromratatouille
  5. English todayratatouille

Unadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.