The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromrotulus
- Old French · derived fromrole
- Middle French · derived fromrolle
- French · borrowed fromrôle
- English todayrole
From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latinrotulus all →
controlroll
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.