Where does “cassette” come from?

cassette (Middle French) comes from Middle French -ette, from Old French -eté, from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic -tos, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

Ancestry of “cassette”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle French-ette-et, -ette
2Old French-etévariant of -té
3Latin-ittusdiminutive suffix, used to create nouns
4Proto-Italic-tosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “cassette”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Old French -eté →Every word from Middle French -ette →