Where does “Afrocrat” come from?
Afrocrat (English) comes from English Eurocrat, from English bureaucrat, from French bureaucrate, from French bureaucratie, from French bureau, from Middle French burel, from Old French burel, from Old French -el — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
Afrocrat (English): An employee or minister of the AU Commission or a similar Pan-African organization
Definitions
- An employee or minister of the AU Commission or a similar Pan-African organization
Ancestry of “Afrocrat”, step by step
Afrocrat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Eurocrat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Eurocrat | An employee or minister of the European Union,... |
| 2 | English | bureaucrat | An official who is part of a bureaucracy; A wiki... |
| 3 | French | bureaucrate | bureaucrat |
| 4 | French | bureaucratie | bureaucracy |
| 5 | French | bureau | desk; office; ticket office |
| 6 | Middle French | burel | — |
| 7 | Old French | burel | frieze; a garment made out of frieze |
| 8 | Old French | -el | Suffix that usually denotes a masculine noun |
| 9 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 10 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English Africa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Africa | contrasted with the Maghreb |
| 2 | Old French | Affrike | — |
| 3 | Latin | āfricus | African |
| 4 | Latin | Āfri | — |
| 5 | Albanian | afër | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 6 | Proto-Albanian | apsera | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 7 | Proto-Albanian | aps | — |
| 8 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 10 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 11 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |