Where does “bomb squad” come from?
bomb squad (English) comes from English squad, from French escouade, from German Eskadron, from Italian squadra, from Italian squadrare, from Vulgar Latin exquadra, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
bomb squad (English): A division of a police force or the military responsible for safely defusing or detonating hazardous explosive devices
Definitions
- A division of a police force or the military responsible for safely defusing or detonating hazardous explosive devices
Ancestry of “bomb squad”, step by step
bomb squad traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English squad
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | squad | A group of people organized for some common... |
| 2 | French | escouade | squad, squadron |
| 3 | German | Eskadron | — |
| 4 | Italian | squadra | set square, triangle; team, squad, group, side;... |
| 5 | Italian | squadrare | To delimit in a square or rectangular shape; to... |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | exquadra | — |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via English bomb
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bomb | An explosive device used or intended as a weapon;... |
| 2 | French | bombé | rounded, convex; past participle of bomber |
| 3 | Italian | bomba | bomb |
| 4 | Italian | bombo | bumblebee; buzzing |
| 5 | Latin | bombus | A buzz or humming sound |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | βόμβος | any deep, hollow sound, humming, buzzing,... |