Where does “décacheter” come from?
décacheter (French) comes from French cacheter, from French cachet, from French cacher, from Old French cachier, from Vulgar Latin coacticare, from Latin coactō, from Latin coactus, from Latin cōgō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
décacheter (French): to unseal; to open
Ancestry of “décacheter”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | cacheter | to seal |
| 2 | French | cachet | seal; pill; cachet |
| 3 | French | cacher | to hide; Alternative spelling of casher |
| 4 | Old French | cachier | to hide; Alternative form of chacier |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | coacticare | present active infinitive of *coacticō |
| 6 | Latin | coactō | — |
| 7 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 8 | Latin | cōgō | — |
| 9 | Latin | cōn- | — |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |