Where does “caleçon” come from?
caleçon (French) comes from Italian calzone, from Italian -one, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
caleçon (French): boxer shorts, boxer briefs
Definitions
- boxer shorts, boxer briefs
Ancestry of “caleçon”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | calzone | trousers; calzone |
| 2 | Italian | -one | Alterative suffix used to form augmentatives;... |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |
Words derived from “caleçon”