Where does “exemplaire” come from?
exemplaire (French) comes from Middle French exemplaire, from Old French essamplaire, from Latin exemplāris, from Latin exemplum, from Latin eximō, from Latin emo, from Proto-Italic emō, from Proto-Indo-European h₁em- — to take; to distribute.
exemplaire (French): copy; facsimile; example; sample; instance;...
Definitions
- copy; facsimile; example; sample; instance;...
Ancestry of “exemplaire”, step by step
exemplaire traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French exemplaire
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | exemplaire | exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a... |
| 2 | Old French | essamplaire | example; model; role model |
| 3 | Latin | exemplāris | exemplary |
| 4 | Latin | exemplum | a sample; an example; a warning example, lesson,... |
| 5 | Latin | eximō | to take out, take away, remove or extract |
| 6 | Latin | emo | I buy, purchase; I acquire, procure |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | emō | to buy, to purchase |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁em- | to take; to distribute |
via Latin exemplarium
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | exemplarium | genitive plural of exemplar |
| 2 | Latin | -ārium | used primarily to form nouns of purpose from other nouns, such as places where things are kept or objects used for a particular end |
| 3 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |