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