The story
- Latin · derived fromauriga
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*aurigata
- Italian · borrowed fromregata“boat race, regatta”
- English todayregatta
From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta (“contention for mastery”), from regattare (“compete, haggle, sell at retail”), possibly from ricattare; or from Italian regata (“boat race, regatta”), via Vulgar Latin *aurigata from Latin auriga.
Words from the same roots
Latinauriga all →
Auriga
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.