Where does “pète-couilles” come from?
pète-couilles (French) comes from French péter, from French pet, from Middle French pet, from Old French pet, from Latin peditum, from Latin pedō, from Latin pēs, from Ancient Greek μέτρον — Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
pète-couilles (French): irritating, annoying as fuck
Definitions
- irritating, annoying as fuck
Ancestry of “pète-couilles”, step by step
pète-couilles traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French péter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | péter | to blow off, fart; to break; to explode |
| 2 | French | pet | fart |
| 3 | Middle French | pet | fart, gas, flatulence |
| 4 | Old French | pet | fart |
| 5 | Latin | peditum | fart; genitive masculine plural of pedes;... |
| 6 | Latin | pedō | — |
| 7 | Latin | pēs | a foot, in its senses as |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
via French couille
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | couille | nut, ball, bollock |
| 2 | Middle French | couille | nut, ball, bollock |
| 3 | Old French | coille | ball, testicle |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | *coleum | — |
| 5 | Latin | cōleus | sack (scrotum or testicles) |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κολεός | a sword-sheath, a scabbard; a cinerary urn; a... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱel- | to cover; to incline |