Etymology

spadassin

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French spadassin ← Italian spadaccino
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromspadaccino“swordsman”
  2. French · borrowed fromspadassin
  3. English todayspadassin

From French spadassin, itself from Italian spadaccino (“swordsman”).

Words from the same roots

Italianspadaccino all →

spadassinicide

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.