Etymology

requin

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Today it means: The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Full definition →

French requin
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromrequin
  2. French · borrowed fromrequin
  3. English todayrequin

Borrowed from French requin (“shark”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchrequin all →

requiemrequiem shark

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.