The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπάθη“a broad wood or metal blade”
- Latin · borrowed fromspatula“a flat piece”
- English todayspatula
Borrowed from Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Doublet of spauld; compare spatha and spathe.
Words from the same roots
Latinspatula all →
spacklespatulamancyspauldspaulder
Ancient Greekσπάθη all →
epeespathspathespathaspathic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.