The story
- Latin · derived fromrevolvō“roll back”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*revoltāre
- Italian · derived fromrivoltare
- French · borrowed fromrévolter
- English todayrevolt
Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revoltāre < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus). Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ).
Words from the same roots
Latinrevolvō all →
revolution
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.