Etymology

brigade

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Today it means: A group of people organized for a common purpose. Full definition →

French brigade ← Middle French brigade ← Italian brigata
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreg-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrégeti
  3. Proto-Germanic*brekanąder.?
  4. Italianbriga
  5. Italianbrigare
  6. Italianbrigata
  7. Middle Frenchbrigade
  8. Frenchbrigade
  9. English todaybrigade

Borrowed from French brigade.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.