Where does “charade” come from?

Charade comes from French charade, from Occitan charrado, derived from the Occitan verb charrar, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European -tós via Latin -atus and Proto-Italic -ātos.

charade (English): A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer...

Definitions

  1. A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer...

Ancestry of “charade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcharadecharade; something bizarre or hard to understand;...
2Occitancharradaconversation; chatter
3Occitancharrarto chat; to waffle; to chatter

Words derived from “charade”

Every word from Occitan charrar →Every word from Occitan charrada →Every word from French charade →
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