Where does “bureau” come from?
bureau (French) comes from Middle French burel, from Old French burel, from Old French -el, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
bureau (French): desk; office; ticket office
Definitions
- desk; office; ticket office
Ancestry of “bureau”, step by step
bureau traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French burel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | burel | — |
| 2 | Old French | burel | frieze; a garment made out of frieze |
| 3 | Old French | -el | Suffix that usually denotes a masculine noun |
| 4 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via French bourré
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | bourré | stuffed or filled to the very limit; drunk; past... |
| 2 | Latin | burra | A small cow with a red mouth or muzzle; A shaggy... |
| 3 | Latin | Burrus | flushed, red |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πυρρός | flame-coloured, yellowish-red; red-haired,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πῦρ | a fire; lightning; a fever |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | péh₂wr̥ | bonfire; spelt |
Words derived from “bureau”
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic
- bureau
- bureaucrat
- bureaux
- bureaucratization
- bureaucratically
- bureaucratism
- antibureaucratic
- bureaucratese
- nonbureaucratic
- buro
- bureaucratize
- unbureaucratic
- femocrat
- debureaucratization
- technobureaucratic
- Eurocrat
- bureaucratical
- antibureaucracy
- technobureaucracy
- unbureaucratically
- debureaucratize
- subbureau