Where does “catch” come from?
Catch comes from Middle English cacchen, from Anglo-Norman cachier, from Late Latin captiare, from Latin captio (a taking or seizing), derived from capio (to take).
catch (English): The act of seizing or capturing; The act of...
Definitions
- The act of seizing or capturing; The act of...
Ancestry of “catch”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | cacchen | to catch |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | cachier | to hide; Alternative form of chacier |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | coacticare | present active infinitive of *coacticō |
| 4 | Latin | coactō | to compel, constrain, force |
| 5 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 6 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |