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Where does “Decalogue” come from?

Decalogue (English) comes from Middle French Décalogue, from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek δεκάλογος, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Decalogue (English): Any set of rules that have the weight of...

Definitions

  1. Any set of rules that have the weight of...

Ancestry of “Decalogue”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle FrenchDécalogue—
2Latindecalogus—
3Ancient Greekδεκάλογος—
4Ancient Greek-λόγοςword, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,...
5Ancient Greek-ός—
6Proto-Hellenic*-os—
7Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “Decalogue”

  • decalogue
  • decalogist
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