Where does “underpassage” come from?
underpassage (English) comes from English passage, from French passager, from French passage, from French passer, from Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin passare, from Latin passus — to hate, hurt.
underpassage (English): A lower passage
Definitions
- A lower passage
Ancestry of “underpassage”, step by step
underpassage traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English passage
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | passage | Describing a bird that has left the nest, is... |
| 2 | French | passager | Passenger; Traveller; Whose presence in a... |
| 3 | French | passage | The act of going through a place or event; The... |
| 4 | French | passer | to go past; to cross; to pass |
| 5 | Middle French | passer | to pass; to go by |
| 6 | Old French | passer | to pass; to pass by |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | passare | to walk, pass; step, walk, pass; present active... |
| 8 | Latin | passus | spread out; dried; step |
| 9 | Latin | patior | I suffer, endure; I allow, acquiesce, permit,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₁- | to hate, hurt |