Where does “Lacaille” come from?
Lacaille (French) comes from French caille, from French cailler, from Old French quailler, from Vulgar Latin coaglare, from Latin coāgulō, from Latin coāgulum, from Latin cōgō, from Latin cōn- — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
Lacaille (French): the star catalogue compiled by Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
Definitions
- the star catalogue compiled by Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
Ancestry of “Lacaille”, step by step
Lacaille traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French caille
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | caille | multicoloured, spotted; quail; inflection of... |
| 2 | French | cailler | to curdle, clot; To be very cold, to be brass... |
| 3 | Old French | quailler | Alternative form of coaillier |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | coaglare | — |
| 5 | Latin | coāgulō | to curdle; make thick, solid |
| 6 | Latin | coāgulum | tie, bond, binding agent |
| 7 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 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 |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via French là
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 2 | Italian | là | there |
| 3 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 4 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 5 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 6 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 7 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 8 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 9 | English | avie | emulously |
| 10 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 11 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 12 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 13 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 14 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |