Where does “grotesk” come from?
grotesk (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Italian grottesco, from Italian -esco, from Vulgar Latin -iscus, from Latin -ensis, from Latin arvum, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
grotesk (Norwegian Nynorsk): grotesque
Ancestry of “grotesk”, step by step