Etymology

scaramouche

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Today it means: A tumbler; an acrobat. Full definition →

French Scaramouche ← Italian scaramuccia
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromscaramuccia“skirmish”
  2. French · borrowed fromScaramouche
  3. English todayScaramouche

From French Scaramouche, a character popularized in France by Tiberio Fiorilli. From Italian scaramuccia (“skirmish”). Doublet of escarmouche, Scaramucci, and skirmish.

Words from the same roots

Italianscaramuccia all →

skirmishskomorokh

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.