Where does “cavalcade” come from?
Cavalcade comes from French cavalcade, derived from French cavalcader with the verb-forming suffix -er, from Latin -āre, tracing back through repeated French and Latin formations of the same pattern.
cavalcade (English): A company of riders; A parade; A trail ride,...
Definitions
- A company of riders; A parade; A trail ride,...
Ancestry of “cavalcade”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cavalcade | cavalcade; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | Old French | cavalcade | — |
| 3 | Old Italian | cavalcata | — |
| 4 | Italian | cavalcare | to ride; to sit astride on; to pass by with a... |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | caballico | I mount a horse; I ride |
| 6 | Latin | -ico | forms regular first-conjugation verbs, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -o | forms masculine agent nouns, positive and... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ōd | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éad | — |