Where does “Minderheitsaktionär” come from?
Minderheitsaktionär (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.
Minderheitsaktionär (German): minority shareholder a shareholder who holds less than half of the total shares of a corporation and thus does not have control over its management
Definitions
- minority shareholder a shareholder who holds less than half of the total shares of a corporation and thus does not have control over its management
Ancestry of “Minderheitsaktionär”, step by step
Minderheitsaktionär 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 Minderheit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Minderheit | minority |
| 2 | German | -heit | Converts an adjective into a noun and usually... |
| 3 | Middle High German | -heit | ness, -ity, -hood; forms nouns from adjectives, denoting the abstract quality of the adjective |
| 4 | Old High German | -heit | nature, character |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -haidu | hood |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | haiduz | manner, way; personality, character; appearance |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kayt- | — |