Where does “forêt” come from?
forêt (French) comes from Middle French forest, from Old French forest, from Latin forestis — dative plural of foresta; ablative plural of...
forêt (French): forest
Ancestry of “forêt”, step by step
forêt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French forest
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle French | forest | forest |
| 2 | Old French | forest | forest, royal hunting ground |
| 3 | Latin | forestis | dative plural of foresta; ablative plural of... |
via French forer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | forer | to bore; to drill |
| 2 | Latin | forō | to bore |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰerH- | to pierce; to strike; brown |
Words derived from “forêt”