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Where does “faubourg” come from?

Faubourg comes from Old French fors bourg, where fors derives from Latin foris meaning "outside," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰwer- meaning "door."

faubourg (English): An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the...

Definitions

  1. An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the...

Ancestry of “faubourg”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfaubourgsuburb
2Old Frenchfors bourgsettlement outside the ramparts
3Old Frenchforsoutside; apart from
4Latinforīs—
5Proto-Italic*foris—
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