Where does “passageway” come from?
Passageway derives from English way and away, Italian passeggiare, French passer, and Latin passus, ultimately from a root meaning to step or pass.
passageway (English): A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings;...
Definitions
- A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings;...
Ancestry of “passageway”, step by step
passageway traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English passage
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | passage | Describing a bird that has left the nest, is... |
| 2 | French | passager | Passenger; Traveller; Whose presence in a... |
| 3 | French | passage | The act of going through a place or event; The... |
| 4 | French | passer | to go past; to cross; to pass |
| 5 | Middle French | passer | to pass; to go by |
| 6 | Old French | passer | to pass; to pass by |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | passare | to walk, pass; step, walk, pass; present active... |
| 8 | Latin | passus | spread out; dried; step |
| 9 | Latin | patior | I suffer, endure; I allow, acquiesce, permit,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₁- | to hate, hurt |