Where does “palette” come from?
Palette comes from Old French palete, meaning a small shovel or blade used for mixing paints and pigments.
palette (English): A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes...
Definitions
- A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes...
Ancestry of “palette”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | palette | palette |
| 2 | French | pâle | pale |
| 3 | Old French | pale | pale, whitish or having little color |
| 4 | Latin | pallidus | pale, pallid, wan; that makes or causes a pale... |
| 5 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |
Words derived from “palette”