Etymology

squadmate

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Today it means: A member of the same squad. Full definition →

English mate ← Middle English mate ← Middle Low German mate
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  1. Latinquadrus
  2. Vulgar Latin*exquadrō
  3. Italiansquadraredeverb.
  4. Italiansquadra
  5. Frenchescouade
  6. Englishsquad
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  9. Proto-Germanic*ga-
  10. Proto-Germanic*matiz
  11. Proto-Germanic*matjô
  12. Proto-West Germanic*gamatjô
  13. Old Saxongimato
  14. Middle Low Germanmate
  15. Middle Englishmate
  16. Englishmate
  17. English todaysquadmate

From squad + -mate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.