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baguette

ba-GET · noun

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Origin

English borrowed baguette directly from French baguette, meaning "stick," which came from Italian bacchetta. Bacchetta in turn traces back to Vulgar Latin *baclitta, a diminutive built on Latin baculum, "staff" or "stick."

Journey

The word began as a general term for a small stick or rod in Latin and its descendants, and only in French did it come to name the long, slender loaf of bread we know today.

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The facts given don't point to another English cognate beyond the chain through Italian and Latin baculum.

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