Where does “kemiingeniør” come from?
kemiingeniør (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.
kemiingeniør (Danish): chemical engineer
Definitions
- chemical engineer
Ancestry of “kemiingeniør”, step by step
kemiingeniør 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 |
via Danish kemi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | kemi | chemistry |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | χυμεία | art of alloying metals, alchemy |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | χύμα | that which is poured out or flows, fluid; ingot,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -μᾰ | "suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -mn̥ | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs |