Where does “escorteur” come from?
escorteur (French) comes from French escorter, from French escorte, from Italian scorta, from Italian scorto, from Italian scorgere, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigō, from Latin corrigō, from Latin cōn- — resin.
escorteur (French): escort
Definitions
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Ancestry of “escorteur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | escorter | to escort; to accompany |
| 2 | French | escorte | escort, suite; inflection of escorter: ##... |
| 3 | Italian | scorta | escort; supply, hoard; feminine singular of... |
| 4 | Italian | scorto | past participle of scorgere; seen, perceived;... |
| 5 | Italian | scorgere | Meanings related to perception; to guide, to... |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | *excorrigō | — |
| 7 | Latin | corrigō | to correct (set right) |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |