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Where does “employé” come from?

employé (French) comes from French employer, from Middle French employer, from Old French emploier, from Latin implicō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

employé (French): employee; past participle of employer

Definitions

  1. employee; past participle of employer

Ancestry of “employé”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchemployerto employ
2Middle Frenchemployerto employ; to use; to make use of
3Old FrenchemploierAlternative form of emploiier
4Latinimplicō—
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “employé”

  • employe
  • inemployé
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →