Where does “didacticiel” come from?
didacticiel (French) comes from French logiciel, from French -iel, from French -el, from Old French -el, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
didacticiel (French): courseware; tutorial in software
Definitions
- courseware; tutorial in software
Ancestry of “didacticiel”, step by step
didacticiel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French logiciel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | logiciel | software; computer program, piece of software |
| 2 | French | -iel | Suffix used to form adjectives. Compare with... |
| 3 | French | -el | To make an adjectival form of a noun; -al |
| 4 | Old French | -el | Suffix that usually denotes a masculine noun |
| 5 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via French didactique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | didactique | didactic; didacticism |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | διδακτικός | skilled in teaching |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | διδακτός | taught, learnt |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | διδάσκω | I teach, instruct, train |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -σκω | Primitive suffix used to form present-tense... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -sḱéti | Forms durative or iterative imperfective verbs... |