Italian word staccato comes from Old French (842-ca. 1400) atachier ((transitive) to attach.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| atachier | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | (transitive) to attach. |
| attach | English (eng) | (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.. (obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self- [...] |
| destachier | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | To detach; to separate. |
| destacher | Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (frm) | To detach; to separate. |
| staccare | Italian (ita) | To distance or leave behind (a runner etc). To knock off (work (intransitive)). To remove, take or take down (from). To separate or divide. To tear out (pages from a book). To uncouple (a train). To unyoke or unharness (draught animals). |
| staccato | Italian (ita) | Staccato (sports) outdistanced. Disjointed, disunited, separate. Loose (pages in a book). |