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Tuileries
Tuileries comes from French tuilerie ‘place for manufacturing tiles’, from Old French tiule ‘tile’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- ‘to cover’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)teg-‘to cover’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtēgula‘a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and…’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400tiule‘tile’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttuile
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenttuilerie‘place for manufacturing tiles’next step skipped: French tuileries
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentTuileriesfeminine plural of tuilerie
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)teg-‘to cover’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtēgula‘a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and…’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400tiule‘tile’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttuile
- French, derivedc. 1600–presenttuilerie‘place for manufacturing tiles’next step skipped: French tuileries
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentTuileriesfeminine plural of tuilerie
- Englishtodaysame form
The story
The name comes from the tile kilns which occupied the site before the palace.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- ‘to cover’
detective, detection, detect, thug, sauna, protégé, toga, thatch, staccato, toque, 27 more
through Latin tēgula ‘a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an…’
Today it means
name A palace in Paris, France which was built in the 16th century and destroyed by fire in 1871.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- / Tuileries