tavern: [13] Tavern comes via Old French taverne from Latin taberna ‘hut, inn’, a word possibly of Etruscan origin. Derived from taberna, in the sense ‘hut’, was the diminutive form tabernāculum ‘tent’, which was borrowed into English as tabernacle [13]. Its original application was to the tent which according to the Bible covered the Ark of the Covenant. => tabernacle[tavern etymology, tavern origin, 英语词源]