Where does “painterlike” come from?

painterlike (English) comes from English painter, from English Panther, from Middle English pantere, from Old French pantere, from Latin panthēra, from Portuguese Onça, from Latin uncia, from Old French lonce — to turn.

painterlike (English): painterly; characteristic of a painter or paintings

Definitions

  1. painterly; characteristic of a painter or paintings

Ancestry of “painterlike”, step by step

painterlike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English painter

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpainterAn artist who paints pictures; A laborer or...
2EnglishPantherA member of the Black Panther Party, White...
3Middle EnglishpantereAlternative form of panter
4Old Frenchpanterepanther
5Latinpanthēraa panther
6PortugueseOnçaEnglish or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g
7LatinunciaThe twelfth part of something; twelfth; The...
8Old Frenchloncelynx
9Italianlonzaloin of pork; a term used in the Middle Ages to...
10Vulgar Latinluncea
11LatinlynxA lynx
12Ancient Greekλύγξlynx; hiccup
13LatincanadensisCanadian
14Latin-ensisOf or from
15Latinarvumfield; farm land
16Latincolōto cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden
17Latinquelō
18Proto-Italickʷelōto inhabit
19Proto-Indo-Europeankʷéleti
20Proto-Indo-Europeankʷel-to turn

via English like

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlikeTo enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of;...
2Dutchluikhatch; shutter; panel, as in a triptych
3Middle Dutchluke
4Dutchluikento close, to shut
5Middle Dutchlukento close, to shut; to close, to become closed
6Old Dutchlūcanto close, shut
7Proto-West Germaniclūkanto close, to shut
8Proto-Germaniclūkanąto close, to shut; Alternative form of *leukaną
9Proto-Indo-Europeanlewǵ-to break, tear; to break, shatter
Every word from Proto-Indo-European kʷel-