Etymology of the English word cascabel
the English word
cascabelderived from the Spanish word
cascabelderived from the Old Provençal word
cascavelderived from the Latin root
*cascabellusderived from the Vulgar Latin root
*quassicarederived from the Vulgar Latin word
quassare (shake repeatedly; wave, flourish)
derived from the Latin word
quatere (shake)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*kwet-derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*kwēt-Date
The earliest known usage of cascabel in English dates from the 17th century.
Usage
Word found in Modern English
