Where does “ὀπτίων” come from?
ὀπτίων (Ancient Greek) comes from Latin optiō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.
ὀπτίων (Ancient Greek): assistant, especially in a military sense,...
Definitions
- assistant, especially in a military sense,...
Ancestry of “ὀπτίων”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | optiō | — |
| 2 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 6 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
Words derived from “ὀπτίων”