Where does “fracas” come from?
fracas (French) comes from Italian fracasso, from Italian fracassare, from Latin infra, from Latin īnferā, from French inférer, from Latin īnferō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
fracas (French): crash; din, roar
Definitions
- crash; din, roar
Ancestry of “fracas”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | fracasso | din, hullabaloo; crash; fracas |
| 2 | Italian | fracassare | To smash or shatter |
| 3 | Latin | infra | below |
| 4 | Latin | īnferā | — |
| 5 | French | inférer | to infer |
| 6 | Latin | īnferō | to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |