Where does “prostipute” come from?
prostipute (French) comes from French prostituée, from Latin prōstitutus, from Latin prōstituō, from Latin statuo, from Latin stātus, from Latin stō, from Proto-Italic staēō, from Proto-Indo-European sth₂éh₁yeti.
prostipute (French): whore a person having sex for profit
Definitions
- whore a person having sex for profit
Ancestry of “prostipute”, step by step
prostipute traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French prostituée
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | prostituée | prostitute |
| 2 | Latin | prōstitutus | prostituted |
| 3 | Latin | prōstituō | to set up in public |
| 4 | Latin | statuo | I set up, station; I establish, determine, fix; I... |
| 5 | Latin | stātus | fixed, set, having been set |
| 6 | Latin | stō | to stand |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | staēō | stand |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sth₂éh₁yeti | to stand |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |
via French pute
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | pute | whore, slut; bitch, slut; fucking |
| 2 | Old French | pute | nominative singular of putain; dirty woman; whore |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | putta | prostitute |
| 4 | Latin | puta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 5 | Latin | puto | I clean, cleanse; I trim, prune, lop; I arrange,... |
| 6 | Latin | putus | pure; a boy |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | puHtós | pure, clean |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pewH- | to be clean, pure |