Where does “cacher” come from?
cacher (French) comes from Old French cachier, from Vulgar Latin coacticare, from Latin coactō, from Latin coactus, from Latin cōgō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum, from Old Latin com — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
cacher (French): to hide; Alternative spelling of casher
Definitions
- to hide; Alternative spelling of casher
Ancestry of “cacher”, step by step
cacher traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French cachier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | cachier | to hide; Alternative form of chacier |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | coacticare | present active infinitive of *coacticō |
| 3 | Latin | coactō | to compel, constrain, force |
| 4 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 5 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Hebrew כָּשֵׁר
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hebrew | כָּשֵׁר | kosher |