Where does “žandarmerie” come from?
žandarmerie (Czech) comes from French gendarmerie, from French gendarme, from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus, from Latin gignere — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
žandarmerie (Czech): gendarmerie
Definitions
- gendarmerie
Ancestry of “žandarmerie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | gendarmerie | The military branch of the French police service |
| 2 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 3 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 4 | French | gens | set of people |
| 5 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 6 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 7 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 8 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 10 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |