Where does “banquet” come from?
banquet (Catalan) comes from French banquet, from Italian banchetto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et, from Old French -et, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.
banquet (Catalan): banquet; small bench
Definitions
- banquet; small bench
Ancestry of “banquet”, step by step
banquet traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French banquet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | banquet | banquet |
| 2 | Italian | banchetto | feast, banquet; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Italian | -etto | Alterative suffix used to form melioratives,... |
| 4 | English | -et | Used to form diminutives, loosely construed |
| 5 | Middle English | -et | Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,... |
| 6 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 7 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |
via Catalan et
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | et | you, thee |
| 2 | Latin | tē | — |
| 3 | Latin | tū | you (singular); thou |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | tū | you |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | túh₂ | you, thou |
via Catalan banc
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | banc | bench; bank; shoal |