Where does “occupant” come from?
Occupant comes from Middle French occupant, from Latin occupāre, meaning to seize or take possession of.
occupant (English): A person who occupies an office or a position; A...
Definitions
- A person who occupies an office or a position; A...
Ancestry of “occupant”, step by step
occupant traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin occupans
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | occupans | occupying, filling, taking up; seizing, invading,... |
| 2 | Latin | occupō | to occupy, fill, take up |
| 3 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 4 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |