English
surcoat
Surcoat comes from Middle English surcote ‘a surcoat’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500surcote‘a surcoat’
- Englishearliest quotation 1956surcoat
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500surcote‘a surcoat’
- Englishearliest quotation 1956surcoat
Earliest quotation: 1956, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, Railway Heraldry: “The ordered system of symbols which we know as…”
A compound of surcote + cote ‘coat, robe, tunic, overgarment’
Proto-Indo-European *gudnós
Proto-Germanic *kuttô ‘cowl, woolen cloth, coat’
Latin cotta ‘undercoat, tunic’
Old French cotte ‘coat, robe, tunic, overgarment’
Every English word from Middle English surcote
Today it means
noun A loose sleeveless garment worn over a suit of armor, sometimes colored or embroidered with the wearer's coat of arms.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English surcote / surcoat