Where does “privéchauffeur” come from?
privéchauffeur (Dutch) comes from Dutch chauffeur, from French chauffeur, from French chauffer, from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, from Old French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin calefare, from Latin calefaciō.
privéchauffeur (Dutch): chauffeur: person employed to drive someone's private car
Definitions
- chauffeur: person employed to drive someone's private car
Ancestry of “privéchauffeur”, step by step
privéchauffeur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch chauffeur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | chauffeur | driver |
| 2 | French | chauffeur | stoker; fireman; driver; chauffeur |
| 3 | French | chauffer | to heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice... |
| 4 | Middle French | chauffer | — |
| 5 | Old French | chauffer | Alternative form of chaufer |
| 6 | Old French | chaufer | to heat; to heat up; to warm |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | calefare | — |
| 8 | Latin | calefaciō | to warm or heat |
| 9 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 10 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 11 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 12 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Dutch privé
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | privé | private |
| 2 | French | privé | private; past participle of priver |
| 3 | Old French | privé | private |
| 4 | Latin | prīvātus | bereaved, deprived, robbed or stripped of something, having been deprived of something |
| 5 | Latin | prīvō | to bereave, deprive, rob or strip of something |
| 6 | French | ferriprive | Suffering from a deficiency of iron |
| 7 | Latin | ferrum | iron; any tool made of iron; fight, clash |
| 8 | Cornish | -er | Forms masculine agent nouns |
| 9 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 10 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 11 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 12 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |