Where does “Patent” come from?
Patent (German) comes from Latin patēns, from Latin pateō, from Proto-Indo-European peth₂- — to spread out; to fly.
Patent (German): patent
Ancestry of “Patent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | patēns | — |
| 2 | Latin | pateō | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | peth₂- | to spread out; to fly |
Words derived from “Patent”