Where does “tradwife” come from?
tradwife (English) comes from English trad, from English traditional, from French traditionnel, from French tradition, from Middle French tradition, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from Latin -tiō — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
tradwife (English): A wife who fulfills a traditional gender role based on Western middle-class femininity of the mid twentieth century
Definitions
- A wife who fulfills a traditional gender role based on Western middle-class femininity of the mid twentieth century
Ancestry of “tradwife”, step by step
tradwife traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English trad
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trad | traditional; traditional climbing; Irish... |
| 2 | English | traditional | Of, relating to, or derived from tradition;... |
| 3 | French | traditionnel | traditional |
| 4 | French | tradition | tradition; A type of baguette or French stick |
| 5 | Middle French | tradition | delivery; treason; fable; oral narrative |
| 6 | Old French | tradicion | delivery |
| 7 | Latin | trāditiō | a surrender, delivering up |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English wife
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | wife | A married woman, especially in relation to her... |
| 2 | Middle English | wyf | Alternative form of wif |
| 3 | Old English | wīf | wife; woman, female, lady, wife; female |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | wīb | woman; wife |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | wībą | woman; wife |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰwíh₂bʰ- | shame, pudenda |