- cadre
[cadre 词源字典]
- cadre: see quarter
[cadre etymology, cadre origin, 英语词源] - cadre (n.)
- 1830, from French cadre, literally "a frame of a picture" (16c.), so, "a detachment forming the skeleton of a regiment" (1851), from Italian quadro, from Latin quadrum "a square" (see quadrille). The communist sense is from 1930.