Etymology

falcade

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Today it means: A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets. Full definition →

French falcade ← Latin falx
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfalx
  2. French · borrowed fromfalcade
  3. English todayfalcade

From French falcade, ultimately from Latin falx, falcis (“a sickle or scythe”). By surface analysis, Latin falc- + -ade.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.