Where does “traveloguer” come from?
traveloguer (English) comes from English travelogue, from English travel, from Middle English travelen, from Middle Scots travailen, from Old French travailler, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
traveloguer (English): The author of a travelogue
Definitions
- The author of a travelogue
Ancestry of “traveloguer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | travelogue | A description of someone's travels, given in the... |
| 2 | English | travel | To be on a journey, often for pleasure or... |
| 3 | Middle English | travelen | to make a laborious journey, travel |
| 4 | Middle Scots | travailen | to toil, work, travel |
| 5 | Old French | travailler | Alternative form of traveillier; to suffer; to... |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | tripaliare | to work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō |
| 7 | Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; a torture instrument |
| 8 | Latin | tripālis | — |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |