Where does “politiestaat” come from?
politiestaat (Dutch) comes from Dutch politie, from Middle Dutch policie, from Middle French policie, from Late Latin politia, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία, from Ancient Greek πολῑ́της, from Ancient Greek -της — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
politiestaat (Dutch): a police state
Definitions
- a police state
Ancestry of “politiestaat”, step by step
politiestaat traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch politie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | politie | police; policy, governance |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | policie | — |
| 3 | Middle French | policie | policy; rule; law; regulation |
| 4 | Late Latin | politia | citizenship; government; state, government |
| 5 | Latin | polītīa | state, government, administration |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πολιτεία | the relation in which a citizen stands to the... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via German Polizeistaat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Polizeistaat | police state |
| 2 | German | Staat | country; state; state; authorities; state |
| 3 | Middle Low German | stāt | — |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | staet | inflection of stâen: ## third-person singular... |
| 5 | Old French | estat | state; government; condition |
| 6 | Latin | stātus | fixed, set, having been set |
| 7 | Latin | stō | to stand |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | staēō | stand |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sth₂éh₁yeti | to stand |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |
via Dutch staat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | staat | state, condition; state; table, list, chart |
| 2 | Dutch | lijk | The dead but otherwise intact body of a human or... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | lijc | — |
| 4 | Old Dutch | līk | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | līk | body |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | līką | body; corpse, dead body; leech-line, bolt-rope |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leyǵ- | to bind, tie |