Where does “claret” come from?

Claret comes from Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin la.

claret (English): A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of...

Definitions

  1. A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of...

Ancestry of “claret”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishclaretclary; clary water; pink, pink-purple, light
2Middle Frenchclaret—
3Latinclaratum vinum—
4Latinclārusclear, bright
5Proto-Indo-Europeanḱelh₁-to warm up, to be hot; to warm up, be hot

Words derived from “claret”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱelh₁- →Every word from Latin clārus →Every word from Latin claratum vinum →