The story
- Latin · derived fromōstiārius
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*ustiārius“doorkeeper”
- Old French · derived fromussier
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromusser
- Middle English · inherited fromussher
- English todayusher
From Middle English ussher, uscher, usscher, from Anglo-Norman usser and Old French ussier, uissier (“porter, doorman”) (compare French huissier), from Vulgar Latin *ustiārius (“doorkeeper”), from Latin ōstiārius, from ōstium (“door”). Akin to ōs (“mouth”). Probably a doublet of ostiary and huissier.
Words from the same roots
Latinōstiārius all →
ostiariusostiary
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.