Where does “Hopkinson” come from?
Hopkinson is an English surname derived from Hopkin, a diminutive of the personal name Robert through Old English cynn and Proto-Germanic kunją, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- meaning "to beget" or "to produce."
Ancestry of “Hopkinson”, step by step
Hopkinson traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Hopkin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Hopkin | — |
| 2 | English | kin | Race; family; breed; kind; Persons of the same... |
| 3 | English | fictionkin | An individual whose personal identity is based in fiction of some kind: a fictional character, a fictional race or species, etc |
| 4 | English | fiction | Literary type using invented or imaginative... |
| 5 | Middle English | ficcioun | An invention or fabrication |
| 6 | Old French | ficcion | dissimulation, ruse, invention |
| 7 | Latin | fictio | fashioning, forming, formation; fiction |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |