Where does “equestionnaire” come from?
equestionnaire (English) comes from English questionnaire, from French questionnaire, from Latin quaestionarius, from Latin quaestiōnō, from Latin quaestiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
equestionnaire (English): A questionnaire distributed via the Internet
Definitions
- A questionnaire distributed via the Internet
Ancestry of “equestionnaire”, step by step
equestionnaire traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English questionnaire
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | questionnaire | A form containing a list of questions; a means of... |
| 2 | French | questionnaire | questionnaire |
| 3 | Latin | quaestionarius | a torturer or executioner |
| 4 | Latin | quaestiōnō | — |
| 5 | Latin | quaestiō | problem |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
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 | — |