Noun: arcade
| Singular | arcade |
| Plural | arcades |
Sample Sentences
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The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches. [2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:]
Nouns inflected like arcade
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
4. Proto-Italic *arkuos
5. Latin arcus
6. Italian arcatabor.
7. French arcadeubor.
8. English arcade
9. Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“the arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“an arc”). Not etymologically related to Arcadia. See: Italian Nouns '
arcata', Latin Nouns '
arcus'.