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Where does “cassable” come from?

cassable (French) comes from French casser, from Old French quasser, from Latin quassō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

cassable (French): breakable

Definitions

  1. breakable

Ancestry of “cassable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcasserto break; to break up
2Old Frenchquasserto break; to annul; to quash
3Latinquassō—
4Latin-tō—
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “cassable”

  • incassable
  • autocassable
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →