Where does “deliverance” come from?
Deliverance comes from Old French deliverance, meaning the act of setting free or releasing from constraint.
deliverance (English): Act of delivering or conveying something;...
Definitions
- Act of delivering or conveying something;...
Ancestry of “deliverance”, step by step
deliverance traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English deliver
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | deliver | To set free from restraint or danger; To do with... |
| 2 | Middle English | deliveren | — |
| 3 | Old French | delivrer | to set free; to liberate; to give birth; to... |
| 4 | Latin | līberō | to free, set free, liberate |
| 5 | Latin | līberāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 7 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 8 | French | lober | to lob |
| 9 | French | lob | lob |
| 10 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 11 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 12 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 13 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 14 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 15 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 16 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 17 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 18 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 19 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 20 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Old French deliverance
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | deliverance | — |