Where does “tôle” come from?

tôle (French) comes from French table, from Old French table, from Latin tabula, from Proto-Italic *taðlā — board.

tôle (French): sheet metal; Alternative form of taule

Definitions

  1. sheet metal; Alternative form of taule

Ancestry of “tôle”, step by step

tôle traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French table

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtabletable; flat surface atop various objects; flat...
2Old Frenchtabletable
3Latintabulatablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for...
4Proto-Italic*taðlāboard

via Middle French taule

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchtauletable

Words derived from “tôle”

Every word from Proto-Italic *taðlā →Every word from Latin tabula →Every word from Old French table →