Etymology

cannonade

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Today it means: The firing of artillery for a length of time. Full definition →

Middle French canonnade ← Italian cannonata
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  1. Italian · derived fromcannonata
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromcanonnade
  3. English todaycannonade

Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon + -ade.

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