The story
- French · borrowed fromsuprême
- Latin · derived fromsuprēmus
- Middle French · derived fromsuppreme
- Middle English · inherited fromsuppreme
- English todaysupreme
From Middle English suppreme, partly from Middle French suppreme, supreme and partly from its etymon, Latin suprēmus, superlative of superus (“that is above”). In the cooking sense, partly an independent borrowing of French suprême, partly merged with the existing English word. Doublet of supremo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.