Etymology

canaille

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Today it means: The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. Full definition →

Middle French canaille ← Italian canaglia ← Vulgar Latin *canālia
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱwṓ
  2. Latincanēs
  3. Latincanis
  4. Vulgar Latin*canālia
  5. Italiancanaglia
  6. Middle Frenchcanaille
  7. English todaycanaille

Borrowed from Middle French canaille.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.