Where does “primates” come from?
primates (French) comes from French primate, from Latin prīmās, from Latin -ās, from Latin -ātis, from Proto-Italic -āō, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂yéti, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé- — he, she.
primates (French): plural of primate
Definitions
- plural of primate
Ancestry of “primates”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | primate | primate mammal |
| 2 | Latin | prīmās | one of the first or principal, chief, excellent, noble; alternative form of prīmus |
| 3 | Latin | -ās | Used to form gentilic adjectives with the meaning "of/from" a country or place |
| 4 | Latin | -ātis | first conjugation |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |