A skillet differs from a frying pan in that it has an especially long handle, and may even have legs that hold the bottom of the pan slightly above the heat source. The name of this utensil derives from a Latin word that has undergone double diminution: the Latin scutra, meaning tray, gave rise to the diminutive scutella, meaning little tray. Scutella then developed into the French word escuele, meaning pan, which gave rise to another diminutive: escuelette, meaning little pan. It was this French word that entered English at the beginning of the fifteenth century as skelet before developing the current spelling skillet.