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0 pointsjakeinspace2y ago0 comments

Ha, apparently I’m the uneducated one. I’d assumed it was an anglicisme that happened to work nicely, but it came to English from Middle French. However, the modern tech-related usage certainly first showed up in English, and then was upstreamed to French I assume? That’s kind of amusing… I’ll leave this as a testament to my hubris as a non-native French speaker.

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bmer2y ago

It (the word plateform) never died out in French.

Wiktionary's "etymology" section is great for 98% of words: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/platform#Etymology

In general, Modern English has many words from French or other Romance (Latin-origin) languages due to French being an important vector through which Latin-origin words entered English, evolving it in competition with Germanic-origin words.

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bmer2y ago

It (the word plateform) never died out in French.

Wiktionary's "etymology" section is great for 98% of words: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/platform#Etymology

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