Where does “Großaktionär” come from?
Großaktionär (German) comes from German Aktionär, from French actionnaire, from French action, from Old French aucion, from Latin āctiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
Großaktionär (German): major shareholder, large shareholder an individual or entity that holds a significant percentage of a company's stock, often triggering regulatory disclosure requirements
Definitions
- major shareholder, large shareholder an individual or entity that holds a significant percentage of a company's stock, often triggering regulatory disclosure requirements
Ancestry of “Großaktionär”, step by step
Großaktionär traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Aktionär
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Aktionär | shareholder |
| 2 | French | actionnaire | shareholder |
| 3 | French | action | action, act; campaign; stock, share |
| 4 | Old French | aucion | action; act; deed |
| 5 | Latin | āctiō | action; a doing or performing, behavior |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via German groß
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | groß | big, large, large-scale; great, grand; tall |
| 2 | English | daddy | Father; A male lover; An informal term of address... |
| 3 | English | -y | Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives... |
| 4 | Middle English | -y | Designates an adjective, in many cases formed by... |
| 5 | Old English | -iġ | -y, -ic |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -g | Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -gaz | -y |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |