Where does “toilet” come from?

toilet (Dutch) comes from Middle French toilette, from Old French toilette.

toilet (Dutch): toilet, bathroom room containing a lavatory

Definitions

  1. toilet, bathroom room containing a lavatory

Ancestry of “toilet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchtoilettesmall cloth
2Old Frenchtoilette—

Words derived from “toilet”

Every word from Old French toilette →Every word from Middle French toilette →
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