Where does “Occident” come from?
Occident comes from Old French occident, from Latin occidentem, the accusative of occident- derived from occido, meaning to fall or go down, ultimately from Latin cado.
Occident (English): the West (Western world)
Definitions
- the West (Western world)
Ancestry of “Occident”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | occident | — |
| 2 | Old French | occident | the west |
| 3 | Latin | occidentem | accusative masculine singular of occidēns;... |
| 4 | Latin | occidō | to fall down |
| 5 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 6 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |