English
entrecôte
Entrecôte comes from French entrecôte ‘entrecôte, a type of steak’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presententrecôte‘entrecôte, a type of steak’
- Englishearliest quotation 1841same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presententrecôte‘entrecôte, a type of steak’
- Englishearliest quotation 1841same form
Earliest quotation: 1841, M. A. Titmarsh pseudonym; William Makepe, Memorials of Gormandising. In a Letter to Oliver Yorke, Esq.: “Any dispute about the relative excellence of the beefsteak…”
A compound of entre ‘between’ + côte ‘rib’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁enter ‘between’
Latin inter ‘between, among’
Old French entre ‘between’
Middle French entre ‘between’
French entre ‘between’
Latin costa ‘a rib’
Old French coste ‘side’
Middle French coste
French côte ‘rib’
Every English word from French entrecôte
Today it means
noun Sometimes in full entrecôte steak: a premium cut of beef from between the ribs used for roasts and steaks.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French entrecôte / entrecôte