Where does “payout” come from?
Payout derives from English pay, from Old French peier meaning to pacify or settle, from Latin picare and pacare, ultimately from Latin pax meaning peace, descended from Proto-Indo-European peh₂ǵ-.
payout (English): An amount of money paid out; The value of...
Definitions
- An amount of money paid out; The value of...
Ancestry of “payout”, step by step
payout traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pay
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pay | To give money or other compensation to in... |
| 2 | Middle English | payen | pagan |
| 3 | Old French | paiier | to pay |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | pacare | to settle, satisfy; present active infinitive of... |
| 5 | Latin | pācāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | pāx | peace |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | pāks | peace |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | péh₂ḱ-s | peace |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₂ḱ- | to join, to attach; agreement, settlement |