Where does “inélégance” come from?
inélégance (French) comes from French élégance, from Latin elegantia, from Latin ēlegāns, from Latin ēligere, from Latin ēligō, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
inélégance (French): inelegance; clumsiness
Definitions
- inelegance; clumsiness
Ancestry of “inélégance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | élégance | elegance |
| 2 | Latin | elegantia | elegance, taste, propriety, refinement, grace;... |
| 3 | Latin | ēlegāns | fine, elegant, handsome |
| 4 | Latin | ēligere | — |
| 5 | Latin | ēligō | to choose, to pluck or root out, extract |
| 6 | Latin | legō | to collect, gather, bring together, catch |
| 7 | Latin | lēx | a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |