Where does “parterre” come from?
Parterre comes from French parterre, from French terre combined with French per, derived from Latin per and Latin terra, which trace to Proto-Indo-European per- and ters-.
parterre (English): A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one; A...
Definitions
- A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one; A...
Ancestry of “parterre”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | parterre | part of a garden that is divided into flowerbeds;... |
| 2 | French | par | through; by; over |
| 3 | Middle French | par | by |
| 4 | Old French | par | by; via; because of; due to; by |
| 5 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |