Where does “paymaster” come from?
Paymaster derives from English pay and English mast, from French masse, from Latin massa meaning a lump or mass, blended with Latin -arius meaning one who.
paymaster (English): An official in charge of payments to employees,...
Definitions
- An official in charge of payments to employees,...
Ancestry of “paymaster”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Master | Prepended to a boy's name or surname as a form... |
| 2 | English | Mast | — |
| 3 | French | masse | a paste, a dough; large amount or quantity of... |
| 4 | Old French | mace | mace |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | mattia | — |
| 6 | Latin | mateola | The meaning of this term is uncertain.... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “paymaster”