Where does “quadriller” come from?
quadriller (English) comes from English quadrille, from French quadrillé, from Spanish cuadrilla, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
quadriller (English): One who dances the quadrille
Definitions
- One who dances the quadrille
Ancestry of “quadriller”, step by step
quadriller traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English quadrille
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | quadrille | A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four... |
| 2 | French | quadrillé | past participle of quadriller |
| 3 | Spanish | cuadrilla | crew, team; gang; cuadrilla |
| 4 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 5 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 6 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 7 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English ER
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 2 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 4 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |