Where does “elingeniør” come from?
elingeniør (Danish) comes from Danish ingeniør, from French ingénieur, from Old French engigneor, from Latin ingeniator, from Latin ingeniārius, from Latin ingenium, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
elingeniør (Danish): electrical engineer
Definitions
- electrical engineer
Ancestry of “elingeniør”, step by step
elingeniør traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish ingeniør
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | ingeniør | engineer |
| 2 | French | ingénieur | engineer; conductor |
| 3 | Old French | engigneor | deceiver; one who deceives; engineer |
| 4 | Latin | ingeniator | engineer |
| 5 | Latin | ingeniārius | an engineer |
| 6 | Latin | ingenium | innate or natural quality, natural character;... |
| 7 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 9 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |