Where does “intendentti” come from?
intendentti (Finnish) comes from Swedish intendent, from Latin intendere, from Latin intendo, from Latin in-, from Latin in, from Old Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
intendentti (Finnish): manager and artistic director of a theater, opera house, or orchestra; director general of a TV or radio station or broadcasting company, intendant only UK English, nowadays only used in referring to the administrators of some European opera houses or theaters
Definitions
- manager and artistic director of a theater, opera house, or orchestra; director general of a TV or radio station or broadcasting company, intendant only UK English, nowadays only used in referring to the administrators of some European opera houses or theaters
Ancestry of “intendentti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | intendent | superintendent, curator, administrator |
| 2 | Latin | intendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 3 | Latin | intendo | I stretch out; I strain; I turn my attention to,... |
| 4 | Latin | in- | un-, non-, not; in, within, inside |
| 5 | Latin | in | in, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,... |
| 6 | Old Latin | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |