Etymology

dragonnade

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Today it means: A policy by Louis XIV to intimidate Huguenots to reconvert to Roman Catholicism. Full definition →

French dragonnade ← Old French dragon ← Latin dracō
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*derḱ-
  2. Proto-Hellenic*dérkomai
  3. Ancient Greekδέρκομαι (dérkomai)
  4. Ancient Greekδράκων (drákōn)
  5. Latindracō
  6. Old Frenchdragon
  7. Frenchdragon
  8. Frenchdragonnade
  9. English todaydragonnade

Borrowed from French dragonnade, from dragon (“dragoon”) + -ade.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.