Where does “caveçon” come from?
caveçon (French) comes from Italian capezzone, from Italian capezza, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from Latin capitium, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic kaput, from Proto-Indo-European káput, from Proto-Indo-European kap- — to seize, hold.
caveçon (French): cavesson
Ancestry of “caveçon”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | capezzone | longeing cavesson , lungeing cavesson |
| 2 | Italian | capezza | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | capitia | — |
| 4 | Latin | capitium | covering for the head; opening in a tunic for the... |
| 5 | Latin | caput | head; headlike protuberance on an organ or body... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kaput | head |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | káput | head |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |
Words derived from “caveçon”