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Where does “shareholder” come from?

Shareholder derives from English share and English hold, ultimately tracing through Old French -er and Latin -are to Ancient Greek ἔλαιον.

shareholder (English): One who owns shares of stock in a corporation

Definitions

  1. One who owns shares of stock in a corporation

Ancestry of “shareholder”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHölder—
2English-erA person or thing that does an action indicated...
3Middle English-eragentive suffix; agent noun suffix
4Old French-erAlternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;...
5Latin-āre—
6Proto-Italic-āōForms primarily denominative verbs
7Proto-Indo-European-eh₂yétiCreates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive...
8Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
9Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
10Chichewaiyehe, she

Words derived from “shareholder”

  • nonshareholder
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