Where does “e-brochure” come from?
e-brochure (English) comes from English brochure, from French brochure, from French brocher, from Middle French brocher, from Old French brochier, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, from Ancient Greek πρόχοος — passed , crossed.
e-brochure (English): A brochure in electronic format
Definitions
- A brochure in electronic format
Ancestry of “e-brochure”, step by step
e-brochure traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English brochure
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | brochure | A booklet of printed informational matter, like a... |
| 2 | French | brochure | brocade; needlework; brochure, booklet, pamphlet |
| 3 | French | brocher | to stitch, sew; to brocade |
| 4 | Middle French | brocher | — |
| 5 | Old French | brochier | to jab; to prod; to spur; to motivate; to... |
| 6 | Old French | broche | brooch, pin; spit |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | brocca | fork, roasting-spit |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πρόχοος | ewer for pouring water upon the hands of guests;... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | πρό- | in front of; before |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | πρό | before; before, in front, forth, forward; before,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pró | toward, leading to |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via English E
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | E | The ordinal number fifth, derived from this... |
| 2 | Old English | E | — |
| 3 | Latin | E | Scribal abbreviation of the diphthong ae |
| 4 | Etruscan | 𐌄 | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ε | Lower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was εἶ, later ἒ ψιλόν, and presently έψιλον. It represents roughly the same sound in both alphabets: in Modern Greek, a somewhat lowered variant of the mid front unrounded vowel: or. It is preceded by δ and foll |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤄 | that |
| 7 | Egyptian | 𓀠 | — |