Where does “cache” come from?
Cache comes from French cache, the noun form of French cacher, derived from Old French chacier, ultimately from Latin captio, the noun form of Latin ago, meaning to drive or act.
cache (English): A store of things that may be required in the...
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- A store of things that may be required in the...
Ancestry of “cache”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | caché | past participle of cacher; hidden |
| 2 | French | cacher | to hide; Alternative spelling of casher |
| 3 | Old French | cachier | to hide; Alternative form of chacier |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | coacticare | present active infinitive of *coacticō |
| 5 | Latin | coactō | to compel, constrain, force |
| 6 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 7 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |