Where does “transaction” come from?
Transaction comes from Old French transaccion, from Latin transactio, meaning a settling or carrying through of business.
transaction (English): The act of conducting or carrying out; A deal or...
Definitions
- The act of conducting or carrying out; A deal or...
Ancestry of “transaction”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | transaction | — |
| 2 | Old French | transaccion | — |
| 3 | Latin | transactio | completion; agreement, transaction, deal |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “transaction”
- transactional
- transact
- subtransaction
- transactionally
- transactor
- nontransactional
- pretransaction
- transactionality
- transactionalism
- transactionalist
- transactable
- microtransaction
- supertransaction
- transactionless
- e-transaction
- cybertransaction
- mistransaction
- posttransaction
- transactionary
- transactioneer
- トランザクション
- transactionalization
- microtransactional
- mistransact