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English word origin

Etymology of Cade

* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (

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A surname · An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper. · A surname transferred from the given name · A surname from French

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* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).

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  • Derivation mentioncadefro · barrel, cask
  • Derivation mentioncadusla

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