Where does “Identitätsdiebstahl” come from?

Identitätsdiebstahl (German) comes from German Identität, from Latin identitas, from Latin idem, from Proto-Italic izdim.

Identitätsdiebstahl (German): identity theft

Definitions

  1. identity theft

Ancestry of “Identitätsdiebstahl”, step by step

Identitätsdiebstahl traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Identität

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanIdentitätsameness, identicalness, identity; recurring...
2Latinidentitassameness, identity
3Latinidemthe same
4Proto-Italicizdim

via German Diebstahl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanDiebstahltheft
Every word from Proto-Italic izdim
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