The story
- Latin · derived fromquadrum
- Italian · derived fromquadro“framed painting, square”
- French · borrowed fromcadre
- English todaycadre
Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”).
Words from the same roots
Latinquadrum all →
quarrel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.