Where does “reality” come from?
Reality derives from French réalité, from Middle French realité, from Latin -tās (noun-forming suffix) and -ālis (adjective-forming suffix) attached to a root from Proto-Indo-European reh₁ís, with -tós forming the participial adjective.
reality (English): The state of being actual or real; A real entity,...
Definitions
- The state of being actual or real; A real entity,...
Ancestry of “reality”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | réalité | reality |
| 2 | Middle French | realité | property, possession |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | realitas | reality |
| 4 | Late Latin | realis | actual; real, actual |
| 5 | Latin | rēs | thing, object, stuff |
| 6 | Latin | vindicatio | civil lawsuit; protection, defence; vindication;... |
| 7 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 8 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 9 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 10 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 11 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 12 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 13 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 14 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 15 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 16 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |