Where does “trecentist” come from?
trecentist (English) comes from English trecento, from Italian Trecento, from Vulgar Latin trecentum, from Latin trecenti, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom.
trecentist (English): A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its...
Definitions
- A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its...
Ancestry of “trecentist”, step by step
trecentist traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English trecento
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trecento | The fourteenth century AD; particularly, the... |
| 2 | Italian | Trecento | fourteenth century |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | trecentum | — |
| 4 | Latin | trecenti | three hundred; 300 |
| 5 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 6 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via English ist
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ist | A practitioner or supporter of an ism |
| 2 | English | -ist | Added to words to form nouns denoting |
| 3 | Old French | -iste | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ista | -ist; one who practises or believes |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ιστής | Alternative form of -τής; -ist |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -τής | Appended to verbs to form agent nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | -tās | — |