Where does “Bagatellstraftat” come from?

Bagatellstraftat (German) comes from German Bagatelle, from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella, from Latin bāca — various small fruit of trees and shrubs: a berry, stone fruit (including olives, cherries).

Bagatellstraftat (German): petty offence

Definitions

  1. petty offence

Ancestry of “Bagatellstraftat”, step by step

Bagatellstraftat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Bagatelle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanBagatellebagatelle
2Frenchbagatellebagatelle, trinket, bauble; trifle
3Italianbagattellatrifle; bagatelle
4Latinbācavarious small fruit of trees and shrubs: a berry, stone fruit (including olives, cherries)

via German Straftat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanStraftatcriminal offence
2Germanstrāfepunishment
3Middle High Germanstrāfe
4Proto-Germanic*strēpōn
Every word from Latin bāca
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