Where does “caché” come from?
caché (Spanish) comes from English cache, from French caché, from French cacher, from Old French cachier, from Vulgar Latin coacticare, from Latin coactō, from Latin coactus, from Latin cōgō — resin.
caché (Spanish): cache; cachet, elegance, pompousness
Definitions
- cache; cachet, elegance, pompousness
Ancestry of “caché”, step by step
caché traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English cache
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cache | A store of things that may be required in the... |
| 2 | French | caché | past participle of cacher; hidden |
| 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 | to compel, constrain, force |
| 7 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 8 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 9 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 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 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via French cachet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cachet | seal; pill; cachet |
| 2 | French | -et | suffix indicating diminution or affection |
| 3 | Middle French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun |
| 4 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |