Where does “reconquest” come from?
Reconquest comes from Middle French reconqueste, meaning the act of conquering again or recovering territory through conquest.
reconquest (English): The act or process of conquering something again,...
Definitions
- The act or process of conquering something again,...
Ancestry of “reconquest”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | conquest | Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of... |
| 2 | Middle English | conquest | A conquest or invasion; a forcible takeover; The... |
| 3 | Old French | conqueste | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | conquista | — |
| 5 | Latin | conquisitus | select, chosen; costly |
| 6 | Latin | conquirō | to seek for, hunt up, search out eagerly or carefully, go in quest of |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |