Where does “barrique” come from?

barrique (French) comes from Old Occitan barrica, from Vulgar Latin barrica, from Latin barra, from Gaulish barros — the bushy end.

barrique (French): barrel, cask; fatty, fatso

Definitions

  1. barrel, cask; fatty, fatso

Ancestry of “barrique”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Occitanbarrica—
2Vulgar Latinbarricabarrel, cask
3Latinbarrabar; barrier
4Gaulishbarrosthe bushy end

Words derived from “barrique”

Every word from Gaulish barros →Every word from Latin barra →Every word from Vulgar Latin barrica →