Where does “Rassenpflege” come from?
Rassenpflege (German) comes from German Rasse, from French race, from Middle French rasse, from Italian razza, from Italian razzo, from Italian raggio, from Latin radius, from English -án.
Rassenpflege (German): "racial care", maintaining the "purity" of a race
Definitions
- "racial care", maintaining the "purity" of a race
Ancestry of “Rassenpflege”, step by step
Rassenpflege traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Rasse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Rasse | race (subspecies), breed |
| 2 | French | race | race; kind; breed |
| 3 | Middle French | rasse | — |
| 4 | Italian | razza | race, breed; kind, type; family, descent |
| 5 | Italian | razzo | skyrocket; Ellipsis of razzo di segnalazione;... |
| 6 | Italian | raggio | ray, beam, shaft; spoke; radius |
| 7 | Latin | radius | ray; staff, rod; spoke |
| 8 | English | -án | Of or pertaining to;. Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a |
| 9 | Middle English | -an | — |
via German pflege
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | pflege | inflection of pflegen: ## first-person singular... |
| 2 | Middle High German | pflege | — |
| 3 | Old High German | pflega | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | plegō | care; an exercise; a game |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -ō | Creates adverbs from adjectives; Creates agent... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -ô | -ly; Forms agent nouns, often from the zero-grade... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |