Where does “tartinage” come from?
tartinage (French) comes from French tartiner, from French tartine, from French tarte, from German torte, from Italian torta, from Late Latin torta, from Latin torta panis, from Latin tortus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
tartinage (French): spreading (on bread, etc.)
Definitions
- spreading (on bread, etc.)
Ancestry of “tartinage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | tartiner | to spread |
| 2 | French | tartine | A slice of bread topped with sweet or savoury... |
| 3 | French | tarte | pie, tart; slap; something easy to do |
| 4 | German | torte | inflection of torten: ## first-person singular... |
| 5 | Italian | torta | pie, tart, cake or similar; roundel; The act of... |
| 6 | Late Latin | torta | — |
| 7 | Latin | torta panis | twisted bread |
| 8 | Latin | tortus | twisted, crooked; spun, whirled; bent, distorted |
| 9 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |