The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπάρτον“rope, cable”
- Latin · derived fromspartum
- Spanish · derived fromesparto“esparto”
- French · derived fromsparterie
- English todaysparterie
French sparterie, from Spanish esparto (“esparto”), Latin spartum from Ancient Greek σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable”).
Words from the same roots
Spanishesparto all →
esparto
Latinspartum all →
esparto
Ancient Greekσπάρτον all →
esparto
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.