Etymograph

English

snapsuit

From snap + suit.

A compound of snap + suit

Dutch snappen ‘to bite’

English snap

Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- ‘to follow’

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Latin sequor ‘to follow’

Vulgar Latin *sequita

Anglo-Norman suite

Middle English sute ‘clothes, matching clothing’

English suit

Today it means

noun A baby's bodysuit with a snap fastener at the crotch.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “snapsuit”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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