Where does “Zimmerservice” come from?
Zimmerservice (German) comes from German service, from English service, from Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise, from Latin servitium, from Latin -itia, from Latin -ia — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
Zimmerservice (German): room service
Definitions
- room service
Ancestry of “Zimmerservice”, step by step
Zimmerservice traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German service
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | service | service (e.g. in a restaurant) |
| 2 | English | service | An act of being of assistance to someone; The... |
| 3 | Middle English | servise | service; servitude; vasselage |
| 4 | Old English | serfis | service |
| 5 | Old French | servise | service; servitude; vasselage; church service |
| 6 | Latin | servitium | slavery, servitude; slaves; service |
| 7 | Latin | -itia | -ness, -ity |
| 8 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 9 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |