Where does “plante d'intérieur” come from?

plante d'intérieur (French) comes from French plante, from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂- — flat.

plante d'intérieur (French): houseplant

Definitions

  1. houseplant

Ancestry of “plante d'intérieur”, step by step

plante d'intérieur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French plante

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchplantesole of the foot; plant; inflection of...
2Latinplantaany vegetable production that serves to propagate...
3Proto-Italicplāntā
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpléh₂-n̥t-eh₂
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₂-flat

via French intérieur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchintérieurinterior; interior, inside
2Latininteriorinner, interior; nearer
3Latininterus
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énterosinside, within
5Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂-Every word from Proto-Indo-European pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂Every word from Proto-Italic plāntā