The story
- Italian · derived fromcavezzone
- French · borrowed fromcaveçon
- English todaycavesson
From French caveçon, from Italian cavezzone, augmentative of cavezza (“halter”), probably from Latin caput (“head”), although derivation from Germanic has also been suggested; compare Old English cæfl (“bit, muzzle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.