Where does “gendarme” come from?
gendarme (French) comes from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere, from Latin genus — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
gendarme (French): A member of the gendarmerie, a military body...
Definitions
- A member of the gendarmerie, a military body...
Ancestry of “gendarme”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 2 | French | gens | set of people |
| 3 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 4 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 5 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 6 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 8 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |