Where does “caricature” come from?
Caricature comes from French caricature, from Italian caricatura, combining Italian carrus meaning "cart" with the suffix -tura, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos.
caricature (English): A pictorial representation of someone in which...
Definitions
- A pictorial representation of someone in which...
Ancestry of “caricature”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | caricature | caricature |
| 2 | Italian | caricatura | caricature, antic; third-person singular present... |
| 3 | Italian | caricare | to load, to stow; to take aboard, hoist, pick up;... |
| 4 | Romanian | -re | -ing, -ation |
| 5 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |