Where does “rôder” come from?

rôder (French) comes from Old Occitan rodar, from Latin rotāre.

rôder (French): to loiter, prowl, move about suspiciously or...

Definitions

  1. to loiter, prowl, move about suspiciously or...

Ancestry of “rôder”, step by step

rôder traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Occitan rodar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Occitanrodar—
2Latinrotāre—

via Latin rōdō

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinrōdōto gnaw, nibble, bite; eat or waste away, corrode, consume; erode
2Proto-Indo-EuropeanHreh₃d-to scrape

Words derived from “rôder”

Every word from Latin rotāre →Every word from Old Occitan rodar →