Where does “metacommentary” come from?
metacommentary (English) comes from English commentary, from Middle French commentaire, from Latin commentarius, from Latin commentor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
metacommentary (English): A commentary on a commentary
Definitions
- A commentary on a commentary
Ancestry of “metacommentary”, step by step
metacommentary traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English commentary
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | commentary | a series of comments or annotations; especially,... |
| 2 | Middle French | commentaire | — |
| 3 | Latin | commentarius | memorandum, notebook; diary, journal; a brief |
| 4 | Latin | commentor | I consider thoroughly, think over, deliberate,... |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |