Where does “parfaire” come from?
parfaire (French) comes from French faire, from Middle French faire, from Old French faire, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
parfaire (French): to finish, to complete; to make a supplementary...
Definitions
- to finish, to complete; to make a supplementary...
Ancestry of “parfaire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | faire | to do; to make; to say , to go |
| 2 | Middle French | faire | to do; to make; to choose; to elect |
| 3 | Old French | faire | to do |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |