• Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: cascade - 1. cascade (meaning a) waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks; b) something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material)


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
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Danish kaskade ... 'meaning 1. a)' '...' ...
Dutch cascade ... 'meaning 1. a)' '...' ...
English noun: cascade; verb: to cascade noun: 17c

verb: 18c

'meaning 1. a) and b);

and also c) succession of stages, processes, operations, or units; d) electronics: a series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next; e) biochemistry: a series of reactions catalyzed by enzymes that are activated sequentially by successive products of the reactions, resulting in an amplification of the initial response; f) a type of firework resembling a waterfall in effect; g) chemistry: a series of vessels, from each of which a fluid successively overflows to the next, thus presenting a large absorbing surface, as to a gas;

verb: h) to fall or cause to fall in or as a cascade; i) electricity: to arrange (components) in a cascade'

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Estonian kaskaad ... 'meaning 1. a)' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Kaskade ... 'meaning 1.a) and b)

and also: a) chemistry: a series of vessels, from each of which a fluid successively overflows to the next, thus presenting a large absorbing surface, as to a gas;

b) electronics: a series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next;

c) risky jump in artistry

d) physics: process taking place in stages with quickly increasing particle number'

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Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian noun: cascata, verb: cascare ... 'meaning 1;

and also: verb: to fall or cause to fall in or as a cascade'

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Latvian kaskāde ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Lithuanian kaskada ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese noun: cascata; Brazil, verb: cascatear ... 'meaning 1;

and also verb: to fall or cause to fall in or as a cascade'

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Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish cascada ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Swedish kaskad ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...

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Etymology: from F, from I cascata "waterfall", from cascare "to fall", from VL *casicare, from L casum, pp. of cadere "to fall". The verb is attested from 1702.


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Information on Other Languages

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meaning 1:

Czech: vodopád

Finnish: vesiputous

Hungarian: vízesés

Norwegian: foss

Polish: wodospad

Slovak: vodopád

Slovenian: slap