The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromθρόνος“a seat, chair”
- Latin · derived fromthronus
- Old French · derived fromtrone
- Middle English · inherited fromtrone
- English todaythrone
Inherited from Middle English trone, from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “a seat, chair”). Superseded earlier seld (“seat, throne”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishtrone all →
trone
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.