Where does “parterretrap” come from?
parterretrap (Dutch) comes from Dutch parterre, from French parterre, from French par, from Middle French par, from Old French par, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic — that.
parterretrap (Dutch): a stairway positioned on the ground floor
Definitions
- a stairway positioned on the ground floor
Ancestry of “parterretrap”, step by step
parterretrap traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch parterre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | parterre | ground floor; parterre, flowerbed; parterre,... |
| 2 | French | parterre | part of a garden that is divided into flowerbeds;... |
| 3 | French | par | through; by; over |
| 4 | Middle French | par | by |
| 5 | Old French | par | by; via; because of; due to; by |
| 6 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 7 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 8 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 9 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 10 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |