Where does “fiche” come from?

fiche (English) comes from French fiche, from French ficher, from Old French fichier, from Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre, from Latin fīgō, from Proto-Italic feigʷō — to insert; to fasten.

fiche (English): a microfiche

Definitions

  1. a microfiche

Ancestry of “fiche”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfichecard; plug; first-person singular present...
2Frenchficherto plug in; to drive something in by its point,...
3Old Frenchfichierto pierce
4Vulgar Latin*fīgicāre
5Latinfīgōto fasten, fix
6Proto-Italicfeigʷōto insert; to fasten
Every word from Proto-Italic feigʷō