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Where does “dialoguiste” come from?

dialoguiste (French) comes from French dialogue, from Middle French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος, from Ancient Greek διαλέγω, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰ-, from Ancient Greek διά, from Proto-Indo-European dwís — two.

dialoguiste (French): dialogue writer; scriptwriter

Definitions

  1. dialogue writer; scriptwriter

Ancestry of “dialoguiste”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdialoguedialogue; inflection of dialoguer: ##...
2Middle Frenchdialogue—
3Latindialogusdiscussion, conversation, dialogue
4Ancient Greekδιάλογοςconversation, dialogue
5Ancient GreekδιαλέγωI choose, gather, pick , select
6Ancient Greekδῐᾰ-apart; through, across; through; in different...
7Ancient Greekδιάthroughout
8Proto-Indo-Europeandwístwice, doubly; in two
9Proto-Indo-Europeandwóh₁two
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