Where does “Filmadaption” come from?
Filmadaption (German) comes from English adaption, from Medieval Latin adaptatio, from Latin adaptō, from Latin aptō, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis, from Ancient Greek Ἄπις — the god Apis.
Filmadaption (German): film adaptation
Definitions
- film adaptation
Ancestry of “Filmadaption”, step by step
Filmadaption traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English adaption
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adaption | Alternative form of adaptation |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | adaptatio | adaptation |
| 3 | Latin | adaptō | to fit, adjust, modify |
| 4 | Latin | aptō | to fasten, fit, apply, adjust |
| 5 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 7 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 9 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 10 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via German film
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | film | film a thin layer of some substance |
| 2 | English | Film | A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity |
| 3 | Russian | фильм | film, movie |
| 4 | English | film | A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a... |
| 5 | Middle English | filme | film, membrane |
| 6 | Old English | filmen | membrane; caul; foreskin |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *filmīn- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | *filmīn- | — |