cartilage
KAR-tuh-lij · noun
Origin
Borrowed from French cartilage, which came from Latin cartilāgō.
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Journey
It arrived through French and largely displaced the native English word gristle, from Old English gristel, though gristle survives too.
Related words
It's connected to gristle, the older native English word it partly replaced, from Old English gristel.
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