The story
- Latin · derived fromrota“wheel”
- Late Latin · derived fromrotella
- Old French · derived fromroel
- Middle English · inherited fromrowel
- English todayrowel
From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
Words from the same roots
Late Latinrotella all →
rotella
Latinrota all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.