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Where does “majorat” come from?

majorat (English) comes from French majorat, from French -ât, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos.

majorat (English): primogeniture; property that descends with a...

Definitions

  1. primogeniture; property that descends with a...

Ancestry of “majorat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmajoratmajorat
2French-ât"A suffix denoting the third-person singular...
3Latin-ātus—
4Proto-Italic-ātos—
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos →