Where does “Facettenauge” come from?

Facettenauge (German) comes from German Facette, from French facette, from French face, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.

Facettenauge (German): compound eye

Definitions

  1. compound eye

Ancestry of “Facettenauge”, step by step

Facettenauge traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via German Facette

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanFacettefacet
2Frenchfacettefacet
3Frenchfaceface; surface, side; head
4Latinfaciēsmake, form, shape, figure, configuration
5Latinfaciōto do
6Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
7Latin-tōriusory
8Latin-tor-er
9Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
10Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
11Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via German auge

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanaugeeye
2Middle High Germanougeeye
3Old High Germanougaeye
4Proto-West Germanicaugāeye
5Proto-Germanicaugôeye
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃ekʷ-to see; eye

via German N

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanNAbbreviation of Nord; north
2GermanNordthe north; a wind coming from the north
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -toriumEvery word from Latin -tor