Where does “sans-cœur” come from?

sans-cœur (French) comes from French Cœur, from Middle French cœur, from Old French cuer, from Vulgar Latin *corem, from Latin cor, from Proto-Italic kord, from Proto-Indo-European ḱḗr — heart.

sans-cœur (French): heartless person

Definitions

  1. heartless person

Ancestry of “sans-cœur”, step by step

sans-cœur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French Cœur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchCœurheart
2Middle FrenchcœurAlternative form of coeur
3Old Frenchcuerheart
4Vulgar Latin*corem—
5Latincorheart; soul, mind
6Proto-Italickordheart
7Proto-Indo-Europeanḱḗrheart

via French sans

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsanswithout
2Old Frenchsans—
3Latinsinewithout; second-person singular present active...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanswéself
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱḗr →Every word from Proto-Italic kord →Every word from Latin cor →