The story
- Latin · derived fromrādō“to scrape”
- Late Latin · derived fromraster“to scrape”
- Old French · derived fromrastin
- English todayratiné
From French, past participle of ratiner (“to adorn”), from ratine, from Old French rastin and Late Latin raster (“to scrape”), from Latin rādō (“to scrape”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchrastin all →
ratteen
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.