échoir
French
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to befall, to happen by chance
- (intransitive) to become necessary (only used in the phrase le cas échéant)
- (intransitive) to become payable, to be due
Etymology
Inherited from Old French escheoir inherited from Latin excidere.
Origin
Latin
excidere
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- excide English
- *excadentia Latin
- *excadeo, *excadēre, *excadeō Latin
- cadere Latin
- ex- Latin
- excidere Latin
- discadere Italian
- scadenza Italian
- scadere Italian
- scadimento Italian
- échéance French
- escaecer Spanish, Castilian
- *kh₂eyd- Proto-Indo-European
- esquecer Portuguese
- esquecimento Portuguese
- esquecível Portuguese
- escheoir Old French
- scădea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- escaecer Old Portuguese
- escaecer Asturian
- scjadê Friulian