Where does “flicaille” come from?

flicaille (French) comes from French -aille, from Italian -aglia, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

flicaille (French): cops; pigs; the fuzz

Definitions

  1. cops; pigs; the fuzz

Ancestry of “flicaille”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-ailleForming feminine nouns having a colloquial or...
2Italian-agliaUsed to create female collective nouns, often...
3Latin-ālis—
4Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from French -aille →