Where does “recommendation” come from?
Recommendation comes from Middle English recommendacion, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio, meaning the act of commending or entrusting to someone's care.
recommendation (English): An act of recommending; That which is...
Definitions
- An act of recommending; That which is...
Ancestry of “recommendation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | recommendacioun | Offering up one's good wishes or hopes |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | recomendacion | — |
| 3 | Galician | -ción | -tion |
| 4 | Spanish | -ción | -tion |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |