Etymograph

English

saccade

Saccade comes from French saccade.

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentsaccade
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1993same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentsaccade
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1993same form

Earliest quotation: 1993, Will Self: “He added the bill with a single saccade of…”

Every English word from French saccade

Today it means

noun A rapid movement of the eye (either voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another. (Often described as a jerky movement, but this word denotes all such quick eye movements, which happen continually, not just exaggerated or weird ones, and not nystagmus.)

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