Where does “repaire” come from?
repaire (French) comes from French repairer, from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare, from Latin patria, from Latin patrius, from Latin iūs, from Latin dīcō, from Latin -tiō — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
repaire (French): den, lair
Definitions
- den, lair
Ancestry of “repaire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | repairer | to go home |
| 2 | Old French | repairier | to go home |
| 3 | Late Latin | repatriare | to return to one's country; return to one's... |
| 4 | Latin | patria | country; fatherland; home; nominative feminine... |
| 5 | Latin | patrius | father's, fatherly, paternal; hereditary;... |
| 6 | Latin | iūs | law, right |
| 7 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |