Where does “parkour” come from?
parkour (French) comes from French parcours, from Vulgar Latin percursus, from Latin percurrere, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
parkour (French): Free running, parkour
Definitions
- Free running, parkour
Ancestry of “parkour”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | parcours | route, course; career; a traditional roaming or... |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | percursus | |
| 3 | Latin | percurrere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 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 |