From Middle English bacheler, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccalārius, from Late Latin baccalāris (compare Tuscan baccalare). Perhaps of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *bakalakos, itself borrowed from Latin baculum.
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