Where does “painterly” come from?
Painterly comes from English painter, formed from English paint (from Chinese 兒, a suffix in Old French -er, from Latin -are verb infinitive and Latin -arius agent noun, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱóm).
painterly (English): Characteristic of a painter or paintings; Having...
Definitions
- Characteristic of a painter or paintings; Having...
Ancestry of “painterly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | painter | An artist who paints pictures; A laborer or... |
| 2 | English | Panther | A member of the Black Panther Party, White... |
| 3 | Middle English | pantere | Alternative form of panter |
| 4 | Old French | pantere | panther |
| 5 | Latin | panthēra | a panther |
| 6 | Portuguese | Onça | English or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g |
| 7 | Latin | uncia | The twelfth part of something; twelfth; The... |
| 8 | Old French | lonce | lynx |
| 9 | Italian | lonza | loin of pork; a term used in the Middle Ages to... |
| 10 | Vulgar Latin | luncea | — |
| 11 | Latin | lynx | A lynx |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | λύγξ | lynx; hiccup |
| 13 | Latin | canadensis | Canadian |
| 14 | Latin | -ensis | Of or from |
| 15 | Latin | arvum | field; farm land |
| 16 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 17 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 18 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |