Where does “pafeskadro” come from?
pafeskadro (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto eskadro, from Dutch eskader, from French escadre, from Italian squadra, from Italian squadrare, from Vulgar Latin exquadra, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
pafeskadro (Esperanto): firing squad
Definitions
- firing squad
Ancestry of “pafeskadro”, step by step
pafeskadro traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto eskadro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | eskadro | squadron |
| 2 | Dutch | eskader | squadron |
| 3 | French | escadre | squadron; wing |
| 4 | Italian | squadra | set square, triangle; team, squad, group, side;... |
| 5 | Italian | squadrare | To delimit in a square or rectangular shape; to... |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | exquadra | — |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via Esperanto pafi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | pafi | to shoot, to fire |