Where does “squadron” come from?
Squadron comes from Italian squadrone, a formation of cavalry or ships, derived from Italian squadrare meaning to square, from Latin quadra meaning square, ultimately from Latin quattuor meaning four.
squadron (English): Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of...
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- Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of...
Ancestry of “squadron”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | escadron | squadron |
| 2 | Italian | squadrone | squadron |
| 3 | Italian | squadra | set square, triangle; team, squad, group, side;... |
| 4 | Italian | squadrare | To delimit in a square or rectangular shape; to... |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | exquadra | — |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |