The story
- Latin · derived fromtabernāculum“tent, booth, shed”
- Old French · derived fromtabernacle
- Middle English · inherited fromtabernacle
- English todaytabernacle
From Middle English tabernacle (14th century), from Old French tabernacle, from Latin tabernāculum (“tent, booth, shed”), the diminutive of taberna (“hut, shed”). By surface analysis, taberna + -cle.
Words from the same roots
Latintabernāculum all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.