Where does “santarmiupseeri” come from?
santarmiupseeri (Finnish) comes from Finnish upseeri, from Swedish officer, from German Offizier, from Old French officer, from Medieval Latin officiarius, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex — obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...
santarmiupseeri (Finnish): gendarme officer
Definitions
- gendarme officer
Ancestry of “santarmiupseeri”, step by step
santarmiupseeri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish upseeri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | upseeri | officer; either a queen, knight, bishop or rook |
| 2 | Swedish | officer | officer, a military person of "fänrik" grade or... |
| 3 | German | Offizier | officer, commissioned officer; any chess piece... |
| 4 | Old French | officer | officer |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | officiarius | officer |
| 6 | Latin | officium | duty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory... |
| 7 | Latin | opificium | work |
| 8 | Latin | opifex | Someone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan |
| 9 | Latin | Ops | earth goddess, fertility deity |
| 10 | Latin | oscen | any bird by whose song cries augurs divined... |
| 11 | Latin | opscen | — |
| 12 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 13 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
via Finnish santarmi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | santarmi | gendarme |
| 2 | Russian | жанда́рм | gendarme |
| 3 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 4 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 5 | French | gens | set of people |
| 6 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 7 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 8 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 9 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 11 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |