Etymology

baccare

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Today it means: Stand back! give place! Full definition →

Latin -āre
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  1. Latin · derived from-āre
  2. English todaybaccare

back and Latin -āre. A cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.

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