Where does “gendarmerie” come from?
Gendarmerie comes from French gendarmerie, derived from French gendarme, a term for an armed police officer or soldier.
gendarmerie (English): A military body charged with police duties among...
Definitions
- A military body charged with police duties among...
Ancestry of “gendarmerie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | gendarmerie | The military branch of the French police service |
| 2 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 3 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 4 | French | gens | set of people |
| 5 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 6 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 7 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 8 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 10 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |