Where does “palette” come from?
palette (French) comes from French pâle, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.
palette (French): palette
Ancestry of “palette”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | pâle | pale |
| 2 | Old French | pale | pale, whitish or having little color |
| 3 | Latin | pallidus | pale, pallid, wan; that makes or causes a pale... |
| 4 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |
Words derived from “palette”