Where does “fracas” come from?
Fracas comes from French fracas, from Italian fracassare meaning to break or shatter, from Latin cassus meaning empty or vain, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱes- meaning to cut.
fracas (English): A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl,...
Definitions
- A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl,...
Ancestry of “fracas”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fracas | crash; din, roar |
| 2 | Italian | fracasso | din, hullabaloo; crash; fracas |
| 3 | Italian | fracassare | To smash or shatter |
| 4 | Latin | infra | below |
| 5 | Latin | īnferā | — |
| 6 | French | inférer | to infer |
| 7 | Latin | īnferō | to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |