Where does “sans” come from?
Sans comes from Middle English sans, from Old French sens meaning "without," from Latin sine meaning "without," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- meaning "to be."
sans (English): without; lacking; Short for sans serif; plural of...
Definitions
- without; lacking; Short for sans serif; plural of...
Ancestry of “sans”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | saunz | without, lacking, sans |
| 2 | Old French | senz | without |
| 3 | Latin | absentia | absence |
| 4 | Latin | absēns | absent, missing, away, away from, distant, gone, gone away |
| 5 | Latin | absum | I am away, I am absent, I am distant |
| 6 | Latin | ab- | from, away, away from; off; at a distance |
| 7 | Latin | āb | from, away from, out of |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | *ab | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | apó | — |