Where does “ingénieur” come from?
ingénieur (French) comes from Old French engigneor, from Latin ingeniator, from Latin ingeniārius, from Latin ingenium, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
ingénieur (French): engineer; conductor
Definitions
- engineer; conductor
Ancestry of “ingénieur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | engigneor | deceiver; one who deceives; engineer |
| 2 | Latin | ingeniator | engineer |
| 3 | Latin | ingeniārius | an engineer |
| 4 | Latin | ingenium | innate or natural quality, natural character;... |
| 5 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 7 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |