Where does “repairman” come from?
Repairman combines English repair, from Middle French reparer and Latin reparo (to restore), with English man, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
repairman (English): A man whose job is to repair things
Definitions
- A man whose job is to repair things
Ancestry of “repairman”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | repair | To restore to good working order, fix, or improve... |
| 2 | Middle English | repairen | to return |
| 3 | Old French | repairier | to go home |
| 4 | Late Latin | repatriare | to return to one's country; return to one's... |
| 5 | Latin | patria | country; fatherland; home; nominative feminine... |
| 6 | Latin | patrius | father's, fatherly, paternal; hereditary;... |
| 7 | Latin | iūs | law, right |
| 8 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |