Where does “versification” come from?
versification (French) comes from French versifier, from Old French versifier, from Latin versificāre, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
versification (French): versification
Definitions
- versification
Ancestry of “versification”, step by step
versification traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French versifier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | versifier | to versify |
| 2 | Old French | versifier | to versify, to compose verses |
| 3 | Latin | versificāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Medieval Latin versificātiō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | versificātiō | — |