Where does “glamourpuss” come from?
glamourpuss (English) comes from English glamour, from Scots glamer, from Middle English gramer, from Old French gramaire, from Vulgar Latin *grammāria, from Latin grammatica, from Latin grammaticus, from Ancient Greek γραμματικός — to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
glamourpuss (English): A glamorous, alluring woman
Definitions
- A glamorous, alluring woman
Ancestry of “glamourpuss”, step by step
glamourpuss traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English glamour
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | glamour | Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially,... |
| 2 | Scots | glamer | noise; the visual influence of a charm, causing... |
| 3 | Middle English | gramer | grammar; Latin |
| 4 | Old French | gramaire | grammar; grimoire; magician; conjuror |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *grammāria | — |
| 6 | Latin | grammatica | grammar, philology; ablative singular of... |
| 7 | Latin | grammaticus | of or pertaining to the study of language, of... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | γραμματικός | knowing one’s letters, of a good scholar;... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | γράμμα | that which is written, that which is drawn,... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | γράφω | to scratch, cut into; to draw, sketch, paint; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Hellenic | grəpʰō | to scratch, cut or carve into |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | gerbʰ- | to carve |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |
via English puss
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | puss | A cat; A girl or young woman, or any child; A... |
| 2 | Middle High German | pūse | — |
| 3 | Middle French | pause | pause (brief cessation) |
| 4 | Latin | pausa | a pause, halt, stop, cessation, end |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | παῦσις | stopping, ceasing |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -τις | retained after dentals |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |