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Where does “barricade” come from?

Barricade comes from French barricade, formed with the French suffix -ade from Occitan -ada from Latin -ata, derived from Latin barra meaning bar or rod.

barricade (English): A barrier constructed across a road, especially...

Definitions

  1. A barrier constructed across a road, especially...

Ancestry of “barricade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbarricadebarricade; first-person singular present...
2French-adeUsed to form collectives; Indicating a dish or...
3Occitan-ada-ing
4Latin-atanominative feminine singular of -ātus; nominative...
5Latin-atus-ed, -ate, -like; Form of -tus appended to nouns
6Proto-Italic-ātos—
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—

Words derived from “barricade”

  • unbarricade
  • barricader
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