Where does “entartement” come from?
entartement (French) comes from French entarter, from French tarte, from German torte, from Italian torta, from Late Latin torta, from Latin torta panis, from Latin tortus, from Latin -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
entartement (French): pieing (an instance of throwing a pie at someone)
Definitions
- pieing (an instance of throwing a pie at someone)
Ancestry of “entartement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | entarter | to throw a pie at, to hit with pie |
| 2 | French | tarte | pie, tart; slap; something easy to do |
| 3 | German | torte | inflection of torten: ## first-person singular... |
| 4 | Italian | torta | pie, tart, cake or similar; roundel; The act of... |
| 5 | Late Latin | torta | — |
| 6 | Latin | torta panis | twisted bread |
| 7 | Latin | tortus | twisted, crooked; spun, whirled; bent, distorted |
| 8 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |