Where does “priorité” come from?
priorité (French) comes from Latin prioritas, from Latin prior, from Proto-Italic priōs, from Proto-Italic prijōs, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
priorité (French): priority; right of way
Definitions
- priority; right of way
Ancestry of “priorité”, step by step
priorité traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin prioritas
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | prioritas | precedence, previousness in time |
| 2 | Latin | prior | former, prior, previous; the first, the original;... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | priōs | former |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | prijōs | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via Medieval Latin prioritas
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | prioritas | — |