The story
- Latin · derived fromrādere“rash”
- Latin · derived fromraster“to scrape”
- Old French · derived fromrastin
- French · derived fromratine
- English todayratteen
From French ratine, from Old French rastin, from Latin raster (“to scrape”), ultimately from Latin rādere (“rash”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchrastin all →
ratiné
Latinraster all →
raster
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.