Where does “paraffinage” come from?
paraffinage (French) comes from French paraffiner, from English paraffin, from Latin paraffinum, from Latin affinis, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
paraffinage (French): paraffining
Definitions
- paraffining
Ancestry of “paraffinage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | paraffiner | To paraffin |
| 2 | English | paraffin | A petroleum-based thin and colorless fuel oil;... |
| 3 | Latin | paraffinum | paraffin, alkane |
| 4 | Latin | affinis | neighbouring, allied to, kindred |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |