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Where does “paintership” come from?

paintership (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.

paintership (English): The state or position of being a painter

Definitions

  1. The state or position of being a painter

Ancestry of “paintership”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpainterAn artist who paints pictures; A laborer or...
2EnglishPantherA member of the Black Panther Party, White...
3Middle EnglishpantereAlternative form of panter
4Old Frenchpanterepanther
5Latinpanthēra—
6PortugueseOnça—
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
16Latincolō—
17Latinquelō—
18Proto-Italickʷelō—
19Proto-Indo-Europeankʷéleti—
20Proto-Indo-Europeankʷel-to turn
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