The story
- Latin · derived fromtrulla
- Late Latin · derived fromtruella
- Middle French · derived fromtruelle
- Middle English · inherited fromtrowell
- English todaytrowel
From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo.
Words from the same roots
Latintrulla all →
Trullan
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.