Where does “mortgagee” come from?
Mortgagee comes from English mortgage, from Old French mortgage combining mort meaning "death" from Latin mortuus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European mer- meaning "to die."
mortgagee (English): One who provides a loan secured upon the...
Definitions
- One who provides a loan secured upon the...
Ancestry of “mortgagee”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mortgage | A special form of secured loan where the purpose... |
| 2 | Middle French | mortgage | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | morgage | mortgage |
| 4 | Old French | mort | past participle of morir; dead; death |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | mortus | — |
| 6 | Latin | mortuus | dead, having died; decayed, withered; faint,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | mortwos | dead |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | mr̥twós | dead |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | mer- | to die; to disappear; sea, lake, wetland |