Where does “Kriminalitätsrate” come from?
Kriminalitätsrate (German) comes from German Kriminalität, from French criminalité, from French -té, from Middle French -té, from Old French -té, from Latin -īta, from Ancient Greek -ίτης, from Ancient Greek πολῑ́της — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
Kriminalitätsrate (German): crime rate
Definitions
- crime rate
Ancestry of “Kriminalitätsrate”, step by step
Kriminalitätsrate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Kriminalität
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kriminalität | crime practice or habit of committing crimes; criminal acts collectively |
| 2 | French | criminalité | crime; criminality, criminalness |
| 3 | French | -té | -ty |
| 4 | Middle French | -té | -ty |
| 5 | Old French | -té | -ty |
| 6 | Latin | -īta | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ίτης | Suffix forming a masculine noun: one connected... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via German rate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | rate | inflection of raten: ## first-person singular... |
| 2 | Italian | rata | instalment |
| 3 | Latin | rata | inflection of ratus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 4 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 5 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |