Where does “sexpat” come from?
sexpat (English) comes from English expat, from English expatriate, from French expatrier, from French patrie, from Latin patria, from Latin patrius, from Latin iūs, from Latin dīcō — shoe.
sexpat (English): One who engages in sex tourism
Definitions
- One who engages in sex tourism
Ancestry of “sexpat”, step by step
sexpat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English expat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | expat | An expatriate; a person who lives outside their... |
| 2 | English | expatriate | Living outside of one's own country; One who... |
| 3 | French | expatrier | to expatriate, deport; to emigrate |
| 4 | French | patrie | homeland, home country, country of origin,... |
| 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 |
via English sex
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sex | A category into which sexually-reproducing... |
| 2 | English | sect | An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing... |
| 3 | Middle English | secte | A variety or sort; a category with a... |
| 4 | Old French | secte | a sect in philosophy or religion |
| 5 | Late Latin | secta | a sect in philosophy or religion, a school,... |
| 6 | Latin | sequi | present active infinitive of sequor; follow, come... |
| 7 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |