Where does “banquette” come from?

Banquette comes from French banquette, a diminutive of French banc, which derives from Italian banca, ultimately from Old High German bank meaning bench or table.

banquette (English): A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet...

Definitions

  1. A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet...

Ancestry of “banquette”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbanquetteseat
2Italianbanchettathird-person singular present indicative of...
3Italianbancabank; third-person singular present indicative of...
4Proto-Germanicbankôbank, embankment; a hill
Every word from Proto-Germanic bankô →Every word from Italian banca →Every word from Italian banchetta →