Where does “cachet” come from?
Cachet comes from French cachet, from French cacher meaning "to hide," ultimately from Latin captio meaning "seizure" and ago meaning "to do or drive."
cachet (English): A seal, as of a letter; A special characteristic...
Definitions
- A seal, as of a letter; A special characteristic...
Ancestry of “cachet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cachet | seal; pill; cachet |
| 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 |