Where does “parachute” come from?
parachute (French) comes from French chute, from Old French cheüe, from Old French ceüe, from Latin cicūta — a plant, poison hemlock, probably either Conium maculatum or Cicuta virosa.
parachute (French): parachute device designed to control the fall of an object
Definitions
- parachute device designed to control the fall of an object
Ancestry of “parachute”, step by step
parachute traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.