Etymology

crossclaim

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Today it means: A secondary lawsuit, brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, against a co-defendant in the original suit. Full definition →

English claim ← Middle English claimen ← Old French clamer
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The story

  1. Englishcross-
  2. Latinclamāre
  3. Old Frenchclamer
  4. Middle Englishclaimen
  5. Englishclaim
  6. English todaycrossclaim

From cross- + claim.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.