masquerade

The story

1. Medieval Latin · derived frommasca“mask”
2. Italian · derived frommascherata“masquerade”
3. Middle French · borrowed frommascarade
4. English todaymasquerade

The noun is borrowed from Middle French mascarade, masquarade, masquerade (modern French mascarade (“masquerade, masque; farce”)), and its etymon Italian mascherata (“masquerade”), from maschera (“mask”) + -ata. Maschera is derived from Medieval Latin masca (“mask”): see further there. The English word is cognate with Late Latin masquarata, Portuguese mascarada, Spanish mascarada. The verb is derived from the noun.

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