English
cassation
Cassation comes from Latin cassō ‘destroy, annul’, from cassus ‘lacking’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *kazēō ‘to lack’.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kazēō‘to lack’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcareō‘to lack, be without., to be deprived of’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcassus‘lacking’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcassō‘destroy, annul’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcassation
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kazēō‘to lack’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcareō‘to lack, be without., to be deprived of’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcassus‘lacking’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcassō‘destroy, annul’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcassation
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- ‘to cut’
castle, caste, château, chastity, chaste, chastise, castrate, cashel, 23 more
through Latin careō ‘to lack, be without., to be deprived of’
Another origin of cassation
- Italianc. 1300–presentcassazione
- Germanc. 1650–presentKassation‘nullification, quashing, cassation’
- Englishtodaycassation
Today it means
noun The abrogation of a law by a higher authority; annulment.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *kazēō / cassation