Where does “dénouement” come from?
dénouement (French) comes from Middle French desnouement, from Middle French desnouer, from Old French desnoer, from Old French des, from Old French de, from Latin datum, from Latin datus, from Latin dāre — to give.
dénouement (French): outcome; dénouement
Definitions
- outcome; dénouement
Ancestry of “dénouement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | desnouement | instance of unknotting |
| 2 | Middle French | desnouer | to unknot; to untangle |
| 3 | Old French | desnoer | to unknot |
| 4 | Old French | des | — |
| 5 | Old French | de | of; from |
| 6 | Latin | datum | gift, present; accusative supine of dō;... |
| 7 | Latin | datus | given; offered; yielded |
| 8 | Latin | dāre | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | didō | give |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dédeh₃ti | to be giving |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₃- | to give |