limousine

Borrowed from French limousine, an adjective referring to Limoges and the surrounding region of Limousin. That name traces back to Latin Lemovices, a Gaulish tribe of central France, likely named for their elm bows and spears — the same root that gives us elm.

First attested in English in 1902, the word shifted from describing a place and its people to naming a style of car.

Limousine shares its ultimate root with elm, both tracing back to the Gaulish tribe's association with elm wood.