Where does “showcase” come from?
Showcase comes from English show and case, where show descends from Old English scēawian meaning "to look at," and case descends from Latin casus meaning "a falling," from Latin cadere meaning "to fall," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European keh₂p- meaning "to seize."
showcase (English): A case for displaying merchandise or valuable...
Definitions
- A case for displaying merchandise or valuable...
Ancestry of “showcase”, step by step
showcase traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Case
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Case | abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines... |
| 2 | German | Käse | cheese; nonsense |
| 3 | Middle High German | kæse | cheese |
| 4 | Old High German | kāsi | cheese |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | kāsī | cheese |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kāsijaz | cheese |
| 7 | Latin | cāseus | cheese |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kwat- | to ferment, become sour; to boil |