Etymology

fracas

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Today it means: A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap. Full definition →

French fracas ← Italian fracassare ← Latin infra
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frominfra
  2. Italian · derived fromfracassare
  3. French · borrowed fromfracas
  4. English todayfracas

From French fracas, derived from fracasser, from Italian fracassare, from fra- + cassare, equivalent to Latin infra + quassare.

Words from the same roots

Latininfra all →

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