Where does “perfide” come from?
perfide (German) comes from French perfide, from Latin perfidus, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
perfide (German): perfidious
Definitions
- perfidious
Ancestry of “perfide”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | perfide | perfidious |
| 2 | Latin | perfidus | That breaks his promise; faithless, false,... |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |