Where does “commentaire” come from?
commentaire (French) comes from Middle French commentaire, from Latin commentarius, from Latin commentor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
commentaire (French): comment, remark; commentary
Definitions
- comment, remark; commentary
Ancestry of “commentaire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | commentaire | — |
| 2 | Latin | commentarius | memorandum, notebook; diary, journal; a brief |
| 3 | Latin | commentor | I consider thoroughly, think over, deliberate,... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |