Where does “massacre” come from?
massacre (Catalan) comes from French massacre, from Middle French massacre, from Old French macecrer, from Vulgar Latin matteuculare, from Latin matteuca, from Latin mattia, from Latin mateola, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
massacre (Catalan): massacre
Ancestry of “massacre”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | massacre | massacre; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | Middle French | massacre | massacre |
| 3 | Old French | macecrer | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | matteuculare | — |
| 5 | Latin | matteuca | — |
| 6 | Latin | mattia | — |
| 7 | Latin | mateola | The meaning of this term is uncertain.... |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |