Where does “pâté à la viande” come from?
pâté à la viande (French) comes from French viande, from Old French viande, from Latin vīvanda, from Latin vīvenda, from Latin vīvendus, from Latin vīvō, from Proto-Italic gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European gʷíh₃weti — to live.
pâté à la viande (French): meat pie
Definitions
- meat pie
Ancestry of “pâté à la viande”, step by step
pâté à la viande traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French viande
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | viande | meat; food; an object of sexual desire; a piece... |
| 2 | Old French | viande | food |
| 3 | Latin | vīvanda | — |
| 4 | Latin | vīvenda | — |
| 5 | Latin | vīvendus | which is to be lived |
| 6 | Latin | vīvō | to live |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | gʷīwō | live, be alive |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷíh₃weti | to live, to be alive |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷih₃wós | alive, living |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷeih₃w- | to live |
via French pâté
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | pâté | paste; pâté |
| 2 | French | pâte | paste; pastry; dough; batter; pastas |
| 3 | Middle French | paste | — |
| 4 | Old French | pasté | pie or a similar baked good |
| 5 | Latin | pasta | paste; nominative/vocative feminine singular of... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | παστά | barley porridge |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | παστός | sprinkled with salt, salted; woman's chamber,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πάσσω | I sprinkle |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeh₁t- | to shake |