The story
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*excappāre
- Old Spanish · derived fromescapada
- French · borrowed fromescapade“the act of escaping; a trick”
- English todayescapade
Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre.
Words from the same roots
Vulgar Latin*excappāre all →
escapescarper
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.