Etymology

sarcel

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Today it means: One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, especially a hawk. Full definition →

Old French cercel ← French cerceau ← Latin circellus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcircellus
  2. French · derived fromcerceau
  3. Old French · derived fromcercel
  4. English todaysarcel

From Old French cercel, French cerceau, Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus. See circle.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchcercel all →

sarcelled

Latincircellus all →

sarcelled

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.