Where does “échantillonnage” come from?
échantillonnage (French) comes from French échantillonner, from French échantillon, from Old French eschandillon, from Old French eschandiller, from Latin scandaculum, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend- — to jump up, ascend.
échantillonnage (French): sampling
Definitions
- sampling
Ancestry of “échantillonnage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | échantillonner | to sample, take a sample |
| 2 | French | échantillon | sample, extract |
| 3 | Old French | eschandillon | standard |
| 4 | Old French | eschandiller | to verify the measures of merchants |
| 5 | Latin | scandaculum | ladder |
| 6 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 7 | Latin | scandō | to climb, ascend, mount |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | to jump up, ascend |