Where does “steeplechase” come from?
Steeplechase comes from English steeple and chase, where chase derives from French châsse, from Latin capsa meaning box or case, ultimately from Latin capio meaning to take or seize.
steeplechase (English): A horse race, either across open country, or over...
Definitions
- A horse race, either across open country, or over...
Ancestry of “steeplechase”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Chase | — |
| 2 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 3 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 4 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer:
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| 5 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 6 | Latin | captiāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 8 | Latin | capiō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
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