The story
- Latin · derived fromvīllānus“farmhand”
- Italian · derived fromvillanella
- French · borrowed fromvillanelle
- English todayvillanelle
From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano (“peasant”), from Latin vīllānus (“farmhand”), from vīlla (“estate”). The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.
Words from the same roots
Italianvillanella all →
villanella
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.