Where does “transvestigator” come from?
transvestigator (English) comes from English investigator, from Latin investigator, from Latin investigo, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
transvestigator (English): A person who performs transvestigation; someone who routinely conducts or promotes informal investigations into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure
Definitions
- A person who performs transvestigation; someone who routinely conducts or promotes informal investigations into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure
Ancestry of “transvestigator”, step by step
transvestigator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English investigator
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | investigator | One who investigates |
| 2 | Latin | investigator | investigator, researcher; second-person singular... |
| 3 | Latin | investigo | I track or trace out, search into, investigate |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English transgender
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 2 | English | gender | kind |
| 3 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 4 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 5 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |