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Where does “corkage” come from?

corkage (English) comes from English Cork, from Middle English cork, from Middle Dutch curc, from Spanish corcho, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.

corkage (English): A fee charged by a restaurant to serve wine that...

Definitions

  1. A fee charged by a restaurant to serve wine that...

Ancestry of “corkage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishCork—
2Middle Englishcorkoak bark, cork
3Middle Dutchcurccork
4Spanishcorchocork
5LatincortexThe bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;...
6Proto-Indo-European*(s)kort-ek-s—
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