Where does “Kuriositätenkabinett” come from?
Kuriositätenkabinett (German) comes from German Kuriosität, from Latin curiositas, from German kurios, from Latin curiosus, from Latin -osus, from Old Latin -osos, from Latin ont-to-s, from Latin -o-wont-to-s.
Kuriositätenkabinett (German): cabinet of curiosities
Definitions
- cabinet of curiosities
Ancestry of “Kuriositätenkabinett”, step by step
Kuriositätenkabinett traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Kuriosität
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kuriosität | curiosity |
| 2 | Latin | curiositas | curiosity, inquisitiveness |
| 3 | German | kurios | curious, odd, bizarre |
| 4 | Latin | curiosus | Careful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted;... |
| 5 | Latin | -osus | -ose, -ous; full of, overly, prone to |
| 6 | Old Latin | -osos | accusative masculine plural of -ōsus |
| 7 | Latin | ont-to-s | — |
| 8 | Latin | -o-wont-to-s | — |
via German Kabinett
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kabinett | cabinet; closet; a classification of wine made... |
| 2 | French | cabinet | a study; an office, a surgery; a cabinet |
| 3 | French | -et | suffix indicating diminution or affection |
| 4 | Middle French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun |
| 5 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 6 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |