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style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><h1 title="Origin and meaning of cab" class="word__name--TTbAA">cab<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)</h1><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>1826, "light, two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage," a colloquial London shortening of <span class="foreign notranslate">cabriolet</span>, a type of covered horse-drawn carriage (1763), from French <span class="foreign notranslate">cabriolet</span> (18c.), diminutive of <span class="foreign notranslate">cabriole</span> "a leap, a caper," earlier <span class="foreign notranslate">capriole</span> (16c.), from Italian <span class="foreign notranslate">capriola</span> "a caper, frisk, leap," literally "a leap like that of a kid goat," from <span class="foreign notranslate">capriola</span> "a kid, a fawn," from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">capreolus</span> "wild goat, roebuck," from <span class="foreign notranslate">caper</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">capri</span> "he-goat, buck," from PIE <span class="foreign notranslate">*kap-ro-</span> "he-goat, buck" (source also of Old Irish <span class="foreign notranslate">gabor</span>, Welsh <span class="foreign notranslate">gafr</span>, Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">hæfr</span>, Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">hafr</span> "he-goat"). The carriages were noted for their springy suspensions.</p> <p>Originally a passenger-vehicle drawn by two or four horses; it was introduced into London from Paris in 1820. The name was extended to hansoms and other types of carriages, then to similar-looking parts of locomotives (1851). It was applied especially to public horse carriages, then to automobiles-for-hire (1899) when these began to replace them.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:1826">1826</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to cab">Entries linking to <i>cab</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of cabbie" href="/word/cabbie#etymonline_v_46618">cabbie<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>also <span class="foreign notranslate">cabby</span>, "cab-driver," 1848, from <a href="/word/cab#etymonline_v_538" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of cab " class="crossreference notranslate">cab</a> (n.) + <a href="/word/-ie" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of -ie " class="crossreference notranslate">-ie</a>. Also see <a href="/word/taxi#etymonline_v_7647" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of taxi " class="crossreference notranslate">taxi</a> (n.).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of cabriolet" href="/word/cabriolet#etymonline_v_27568">cabriolet<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>"light two-wheeled chaise," 1766, from French <span class="foreign notranslate">cabriolet</span> (18c.), derivative of <span class="foreign notranslate">cabriole</span> "a leap like a goat" (see <a href="/word/cab" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of cab " class="crossreference notranslate">cab</a>). So called from its light, leaping motion. As a form of curved leg on furniture, 1854, from the resemblance to the leg of a leaping quadruped.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div><ul class="related__container--22iKI"><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of Capella" href="/word/Capella"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">Capella</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of caper" href="/word/caper"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">caper</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of Capricorn" href="/word/Capricorn"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">Capricorn</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of caprine" href="/word/caprine"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">caprine</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of chevron" href="/word/chevron"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">chevron</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of hansom" href="/word/hansom"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">hansom</li></a><a target="_self" title="Origin and meaning of taxicab" href="/word/taxicab"><li class="related__word--3Si0N">taxicab</li></a><a class="related__more--1gm0U related__word--3Si0N" href="/word/cab/related"><li>See all related words (<!-- -->9<!-- -->) <!-- -->></li></a></ul></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of cab">Trends of <i>cab</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.</div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="More to Explore">More to Explore</h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="linked" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of caper" href="/word/caper"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">caper<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"to leap, skip, prance," 1580s, apparently short for obsolete capriole "to leap, skip," which is probably from Italian capriolare "jump in the air" (see cab). Related: Capered; capering....type of prickly Mediterranean bush, also in reference to the plant's edible buds, late 14c.</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="linked" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of chevron" href="/word/chevron"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">chevron<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">late 14c., in heraldry, "a device in the shape of an inverted V," from Old French chevron "rafter; chevron" (13c.), so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *caprione, from Latin caper "goat" (see cab); the hypothetical connection between goats</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="linked" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of hansom" href="/word/hansom"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">hansom<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"two-wheeled, two-person, one-horse cab or carriage with the driver's seat above and behind," 1847, from James A. Hansom (1803-1882), English architect who designed such a vehicle c. 1834. The surname is from 17c., originally a nickname, handsome. The fashionable form of the cab.</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of taxi" href="/word/taxi"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">taxi<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">1907, shortening of taximeter cab (introduced in London in March 1907), from taximeter "automatic meter to record the distance...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of scrod" href="/word/scrod"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">scrod<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">In search of dinner, and hungry for that Boston favorite, broiled scrod, he hops into a cab and asks the driver, "My good...</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of rig" href="/word/rig"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">rig<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">late 15c., originally nautical, "to fit (a ship) with necessary tackle, make (a ship) ready for sea," a word of obscure origin, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish, Norwegian rigge "to equip," Swedish rigga "to rig, harness"), though these may be from English; per</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of hack" href="/word/hack"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">hack<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows," c. 1200, from verb found in stem of Old English tohaccian "hack to pieces," from West Germanic *hakkon (source also of Old Frisian hackia "to chop or hack," Dutch hakken, Old High German hacchon, German hacken), from PIE root *keg- "hook</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of dire" href="/word/dire"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">dire<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"causing or attended by great fear, dreadful, awful," 1560s, from Latin dirus "fearful, awful, boding ill," a religious term, which is of unknown origin. Apparently a dialect word in Latin; perhaps from Oscan and Umbrian and perhaps cognate with Greek deinos "terrible," Sanskrit </section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of ride" href="/word/ride"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">ride<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">Middle English riden, from Old English ridan "sit or be carried on" (as on horseback), "move forward; rock; float, sail" (class I strong verb; past tense rad, past participle riden), from Proto-Germanic *ridan (source also of Old Norse riða, Old Saxon ridan, Old Frisian rida "to </section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="other_relation" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of carriage" href="/word/carriage"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">carriage<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">late 14c., "act of carrying, means of conveyance; wheeled vehicles collectively," from Anglo-French and Old North French cariage "cart, carriage, action of transporting in a vehicle" (Old French charriage, Modern French charriage), from carier "to carry," from Late Latin carricar</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div class="share-tool socialShare--223YS"><h3 title="Share cab to social networks" class="socialShare__title--34iP2">Share <i>cab</i></h3><div class="cite--1qJ-_ share-cite">‘<!-- -->cite<!-- -->’</div><a title="Share on Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Fword%2Fcab" data-social-target="Facebook" target="blank" rel="nofollow" class="fa share socialShare__icon--3FJac socialShare__icon__facebook--2fm3U fa-facebook"></a><a title="Share on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Fword%2Fcab&text=cab%20%7C%20Etymology%20of%20cab%20by%20etymonline" data-social-target="Twitter" target="blank" rel="nofollow" class="fa share socialShare__icon--3FJac socialShare__icon__twitter--1iFxf fa-twitter"></a><a title="Share on Reddit" href="https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Fword%2Fcab&title=cab%20%7C%20Etymology%20of%20cab%20by%20etymonline" data-social-target="Reddit" target="blank" rel="nofollow" class="fa share socialShare__icon--3FJac socialShare__icon__reddit--30bBu fa-reddit"></a><a title="Share on Email" href="mailto:?subject=cab%20%7C%20Etymology%20of%20cab%20by%20etymonline&body=%22light%2C%20two-%20or%20four-wheeled%20horse-drawn%20carriage%2C%22%20a%20colloquial%20London%20shortening%20of%E2%80%A6%20See%20origin%20and%20meaning%20of%20cab.%0Afrom%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etymonline.com%2Fword%2Fcab%20Find%20out%20more%20at%20etymonline.com" data-social-target="Email" target="blank" rel="nofollow" class="fa share socialShare__icon--3FJac socialShare__icon__email--3hVBm fa-email"></a><div class="cite__content--3ghsO cite-content"><div class="cite__content_title--3ABWh">Page URL:</div><textarea class="cite__content_textarea--3zgJO cite-textarea" readonly="">https://www.etymonline.com/word/cab</textarea><div class="cite__content_title--3ABWh">HTML Link:</div><textarea class="cite__content_textarea--3zgJO cite-textarea" readonly=""><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/cab">Etymology of cab by etymonline</a></textarea><div class="cite__content_title--3ABWh">APA style:</div><textarea class="cite__content_textarea--3zgJO cite-textarea" readonly="">Harper, D. 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