Where does “surveillance” come from?
surveillance (French) comes from French surveiller, from Old French surveillier, from Old French veillier, from Vulgar Latin viglare, from Latin vigilō, from Latin vigil, from Proto-Indo-European weǵ- — lively, awake; strong.
surveillance (French): surveillance; supervision
Definitions
- surveillance; supervision
Ancestry of “surveillance”, step by step
surveillance traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French surveiller
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | surveiller | to monitor, to survey, to watch |
| 2 | Old French | surveillier | to keep watch over |
| 3 | Old French | veillier | to be awake |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | viglare | — |
| 5 | Latin | vigilō | to watch through, spend in watching, do or make while watching |
| 6 | Latin | vigil | awake, watching, alert; watchman, guard,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | weǵ- | lively, awake; strong |
Words derived from “surveillance”
- surveillance
- surveil
- immunosurveillance
- dataveillance
- countersurveillance
- biosurveillance
- antisurveillance
- serosurveillance
- surveillable
- cybersurveillance
- oversurveillance
- surveillance
- télésurveillance
- vidéosurveillance
- re-surveillance
- uberveillance
- geosurveillance
- e-surveillance
- hypersurveillance
- superveillance
- technosurveillance
- telesurveillance
- xenosurveillance
- resurveil