Where does “pararescuer” come from?
pararescuer (English) comes from English rescuer, from English rescue, from Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, from Latin excutere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
pararescuer (English): A person who practises pararescue
Definitions
- A person who practises pararescue
Ancestry of “pararescuer”, step by step
pararescuer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English rescuer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | rescuer | A person who rescues someone or something |
| 2 | English | rescue | To save from any violence, danger or evil; To... |
| 3 | Middle English | rescouen | — |
| 4 | Old French | rescoure | — |
| 5 | Latin | excutere | present active infinitive of excutiō;... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |