Where does “empiretyyli” come from?
empiretyyli (Finnish) comes from Finnish empire, from French empire, from Old French empire, from Latin imperium, from Latin imperāre, from Latin parāre, from Latin parō, from Latin pectus — Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of...
empiretyyli (Finnish): empire style, Empire style early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture and other decorative arts, representing the second phase of neoclassicism
Definitions
- empire style, Empire style early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture and other decorative arts, representing the second phase of neoclassicism
Ancestry of “empiretyyli”, step by step
empiretyyli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish empire
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | empire | — |
| 2 | French | empire | empire; influence, authority, dominion;... |
| 3 | Old French | empire | empire |
| 4 | Latin | imperium | The empire, state, imperial government, realm,... |
| 5 | Latin | imperāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | parāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | parō | to arrange, order, contrive, design |
| 8 | Latin | pectus | chest, breast; heart, breast, as the seat of... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | pektos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | peg- | breast |
| 11 | English | polyethylene glycol | Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of... |