Etymology

metalcore

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Today it means: A subgenre of rock music which fuses extreme metal and hardcore punk. Full definition →

English hardcorebf. ← Middle English metal ← Old French meta
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The story

  1. Latinmetallum
  2. Old Frenchmeta
  3. Middle Englishmetal
  4. Englishmetal
  5. Englishhardcorebf.
  6. English todaymetalcore

From metal + -core.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.