Where does “dunderpate” come from?
dunderpate (English) comes from English pâté, from French pâté, from French pâte, from Middle French paste, from Old French pasté, from Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά, from Ancient Greek παστός — to shake.
dunderpate (English): dunderhead
Definitions
- dunderhead
Ancestry of “dunderpate”, step by step
dunderpate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pâté
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pâté | A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or... |
| 2 | French | pâté | paste; pâté |
| 3 | French | pâte | paste; pastry; dough; batter; pastas |
| 4 | Middle French | paste | — |
| 5 | Old French | pasté | pie or a similar baked good |
| 6 | Latin | pasta | paste; nominative/vocative feminine singular of... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | παστά | barley porridge |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | παστός | sprinkled with salt, salted; woman's chamber,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | πάσσω | I sprinkle |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeh₁t- | to shake |
via English dunder
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | dunder | The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the... |
| 2 | English | under | In or at a lower level than; As a subject of;... |
| 3 | Middle English | under | under |
| 4 | Old English | under | under, beneath |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | under | among, between; under, beneath; under |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁entér | between |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁en | in; in, inside |