garçon

Meaning

Noun

• A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).

Origin

• From French garçon (1788), from Old French garçun, oblique case of gars, from Medieval Latin garciō, from Frankish *wrakkjō, from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô, from Proto-Indo-European *wreg-. Cognate with Old High German wrecheo, recko (Modern German Recke), Old Saxon wrekkio, Old English wreċċa, and perhaps to Old Norse rekkr. More at wretch, wreak.