Where does “sabotage” come from?
Sabotage comes from French sabotage, a noun formed from French sabot plus the suffix -age, with sabot deriving from Latin -aticum and -icus, which trace to Proto-Indo-European -kos.
sabotage (English): A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy...
Definitions
- A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy...
Ancestry of “sabotage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sabotage | sabotage |
| 2 | French | -age | Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result... |
| 3 | Middle French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of "action or result... |
| 4 | Old French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of 'action or result... |
| 5 | Old Occitan | -atge | suffix used to form masculine nouns |
| 6 | Latin | -āticum | — |