Where does “quadrille” come from?
Quadrille comes from French quadrillé, the past participle of French quadriller, derived from Latin quadra meaning square, ultimately from Latin quattuor meaning four.
quadrille (English): A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four...
Definitions
- A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four...
Ancestry of “quadrille”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | quadrillé | past participle of quadriller |
| 2 | Spanish | cuadrilla | crew, team; gang; cuadrilla |
| 3 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 4 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 5 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 6 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |