Where does “sentiment” come from?
sentiment (Dutch) comes from French sentiment, from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum, from Latin sentiō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
sentiment (Dutch): sentiment
Definitions
- sentiment
Ancestry of “sentiment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sentiment | A sentiment, general thought, sense or feeling;... |
| 2 | Old French | sentement | — |
| 3 | Latin | sentimentum | feeling, opinion, sentiment |
| 4 | Latin | sentiō | to feel, to sense, to perceive (with the senses) |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |