Where does “Präteritumperfekt” come from?
Präteritumperfekt (German) comes from German perfekt, from Latin perfectus, from Latin perficiō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
Präteritumperfekt (German): pluperfect
Definitions
- pluperfect
Ancestry of “Präteritumperfekt”, step by step
Präteritumperfekt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German perfekt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | perfekt | perfect |
| 2 | Latin | perfectus | achieved, executed, carried out, finished,... |
| 3 | Latin | perficiō | to finish, complete |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via German Präteritum
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Präteritum | preterite (preterite tense; past tense) |
| 2 | Latin | praeteritum | nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of... |
| 3 | Latin | praetereo | I pass by or go by; I disregard, neglect, omit or... |
| 4 | Latin | eō | to go, to fare, to move (oneself) (any kind of animate or inanimate motion: walk, ride, sail, fly, etc.) |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | eō | I go |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | ejō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁éyti | to go, to be going |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ey- | to go |