Where does “battlezone” come from?
battlezone (English) comes from English Zone, from French zone, from German Zone, from Italian zona, from Spanish zona, from Portuguese zona, from Russian зо́на, from Latin zōna — belt, sash.
battlezone (English): The area in which a battle takes place
Definitions
- The area in which a battle takes place
Ancestry of “battlezone”, step by step
battlezone traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Zone
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Zone | Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles) |
| 2 | French | zone | zone; first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 3 | German | Zone | zone |
| 4 | Italian | zona | a zone, area or district |
| 5 | Spanish | zona | zone, district, area |
| 6 | Portuguese | zona | zone; area, region; mess |
| 7 | Russian | зо́на | zone |
| 8 | Latin | zōna | belt, girdle |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | ζώνη | belt, sash |
via English Battle
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Battle | from places in England that have been sites of a battle |
| 2 | Middle English | batel | Alternative form of batayle; flourishing |
| 3 | Old English | batol | improving, tending to be good |
| 4 | Old English | batian | to fatten, to get fatter; to improve, to get... |
| 5 | Old English | -ol | Used to form suffixes denoting inclination or... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -ulaz | Forms adjectives from verbs meaning "doing" or... |