Etymology

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Today it means: A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse. Full definition →

French escache ← Italian scaccia
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromscaccia
  2. French · borrowed fromescache
  3. English todayscatch

From French escache, from Italian scaccia.

Words from the same roots

Italianscaccia all →

Scaccia

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.