Where does “queue” come from?

Queue comes from French queue, from Middle French queu, from Old French cue, from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda meaning tail, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European keh₂w-.

queue (English): An animal's tail; A line of people, vehicles or...

Definitions

  1. An animal's tail; A line of people, vehicles or...

Ancestry of “queue”, step by step

queue traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French queue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchqueuetail; queue, line; cue
2Middle Frenchqueu—
3Old Frenchcuetail
4Vulgar Latincodatail
5LatincaudaA tail
6Proto-Italickaudātail
7Proto-Indo-Europeankeh₂udeh₂—

via Middle English queue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishqueue—
2Anglo-NormanqueueAlternative form of cue

Words derived from “queue”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European keh₂udeh₂ →Every word from Proto-Italic kaudā →Every word from Latin cauda →