Where does “avant-coureur” come from?
avant-coureur (French) comes from French courir, from Latin percurrere, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
avant-coureur (French): messenger, scout; foresayer, predicter;...
Definitions
- messenger, scout; foresayer, predicter;...
Ancestry of “avant-coureur”, step by step
avant-coureur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French courir
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | courir | to run; to go |
| 2 | Latin | percurrere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via French avant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | avant | beforehand; earlier |
| 2 | Latin | ante | before, in front, forwards; before; before,... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | κλίσις | bending, inclination; a lying down; a place for... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -τις | retained after dentals |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |