Where does “unpainterly” come from?

unpainterly (English) comes from English painterly, from English painter, from English Panther, from Middle English pantere, from Old French pantere, from Latin panthēra, from Portuguese Onça, from Latin uncia — to inhabit.

unpainterly (English): Not painterly

Definitions

  1. Not painterly

Ancestry of “unpainterly”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpainterlyCharacteristic of a painter or paintings; Having...
2EnglishpainterAn artist who paints pictures; A laborer or...
3EnglishPantherA member of the Black Panther Party, White...
4Middle EnglishpantereAlternative form of panter
5Old Frenchpanterepanther
6Latinpanthēraa panther
7PortugueseOnçaEnglish or American ounce, a unit of mass equal to 28.35 g
8LatinunciaThe twelfth part of something; twelfth; The...
9Old Frenchloncelynx
10Italianlonzaloin of pork; a term used in the Middle Ages to...
11Vulgar Latinluncea
12LatinlynxA lynx
13Ancient Greekλύγξlynx; hiccup
14LatincanadensisCanadian
15Latin-ensisOf or from
16Latinarvumfield; farm land
17Latincolōto cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden
18Latinquelō
19Proto-Italickʷelōto inhabit
Every word from Proto-Italic kʷelōEvery word from Latin quelōEvery word from Latin colō
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