Where does “fictomercial” come from?
fictomercial (English) comes from English commercial, from French commercial, from Latin commerciālis, from Latin commercium, from Latin com-, from Latin con-, from Latin cum, from Old Latin com — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
fictomercial (English): A work of fiction featuring product placement or...
Definitions
- A work of fiction featuring product placement or...
Ancestry of “fictomercial”, step by step
fictomercial traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English commercial
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | commercial | An advertisement in a common media format,... |
| 2 | French | commercial | commercial; a salesman, sales representative |
| 3 | Latin | commerciālis | Of or pertaining to trade or commerce, commercial |
| 4 | Latin | commercium | Trade, traffic, commerce, exchange; Intercourse,... |
| 5 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 6 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via English fiction
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fiction | Literary type using invented or imaginative... |
| 2 | Middle English | ficcioun | An invention or fabrication |
| 3 | Old French | ficcion | dissimulation, ruse, invention |
| 4 | Latin | fictio | fashioning, forming, formation; fiction |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |