Where does “veldofficier” come from?
veldofficier (Dutch) comes from Dutch officier, from Middle Dutch officier, from Old French officier, from Latin officiārius, from French officier, from German Offizier, from Old French officer, from Medieval Latin officiarius — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.
veldofficier (Dutch): A field officer, ranking under general officers...
Definitions
- A field officer, ranking under general officers...
Ancestry of “veldofficier”, step by step
veldofficier traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch officier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | officier | officer; plantation overseer; official |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | officier | official |
| 3 | Old French | officier | officer |
| 4 | Latin | officiārius | officer |
| 5 | French | officier | to officiate; officer |
| 6 | German | Offizier | officer, commissioned officer; any chess piece... |
| 7 | Old French | officer | officer |
| 8 | Medieval Latin | officiarius | officer |
| 9 | Latin | officium | duty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory... |
| 10 | Latin | opificium | work |
| 11 | Latin | opifex | Someone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan |
| 12 | Latin | Ops | earth goddess, fertility deity |
| 13 | Latin | oscen | any bird by whose song cries augurs divined... |
| 14 | Latin | opscen | — |
| 15 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 16 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |
via Dutch veld
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | veld | A field, open country; An agricultural field; A... |
| 2 | Dutch | fles | bottle |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | flassche | — |
| 4 | Old Dutch | flaska | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | flaskā | bottle, flask |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | flaskǭ | a plaiting-covered vessel; bottle, flask |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | flehtaną | to plait, to weave |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pleḱ- | to fold, plait, weave |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pel- | to cover, to wrap; skin, hide, cloth; to fold |