Etymology of the English word curlicue
the English word
curlicuederived from the English word
curlyderived from the English word
curlderived from the Middle Dutch word
crullenderived from the Proto-Germanic root
*krusl-using the English suffix
-yderived from the English word
cuederived from the English word
queuederived from the French word
queuederived from the Old French word
cuederived from the New Latin word
cauda (tail; tail; extreme part, tail of anything)
derived from the English word
namederived from the Proto-Germanic root
*namonderived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*nō-men-derived from the English word
cueDate
The earliest known usage of curlicue in English dates from the 19th century.
Usage
Word found in Modern English
