Where does “cache-nez” come from?

cache-nez (French) comes from French caché, from French cacher, from Old French cachier, from Vulgar Latin coacticare, from Latin coactō, from Latin coactus, from Latin cōgō, from Latin cōn- — resin.

cache-nez (French): scarf, muffler

Definitions

scarf, muffler

Ancestry of “cache-nez”, step by step

cache-nez traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French caché

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	caché	past participle of cacher; hidden
2	French	cacher	to hide; Alternative spelling of casher
3	Old French	cachier	to hide; Alternative form of chacier
4	Vulgar Latin	coacticare	present active infinitive of *coacticō
5	Latin	coactō	to compel, constrain, force
6	Latin	coactus	forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,...
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

via French nez

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	nez	nose; Someone who invents perfumes
2	Middle French	nez	nose
3	Old French	nés	nose; inflection of nef: ## oblique plural ##...
4	Latin	nāsus	The nose
5	Latin	-ō	suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
6	Proto-Indo-European	-ō	Derives nouns from roots

Words derived from “cache-nez”

Every word from Proto-Germanic kweduz →Every word from Latin cōn- →Every word from Proto-West Germanic kwidu →