Where does “realitätsfern” come from?
realitätsfern (German) comes from German Realität, from French réalité, from Middle French realité, from Medieval Latin realitas, from Late Latin realis, from Latin rēs, from Latin vindicatio, from Latin vindicō — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
realitätsfern (German): unrealistic, out of touch (with reality)
Definitions
- unrealistic, out of touch (with reality)
Ancestry of “realitätsfern”, step by step
realitätsfern traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Realität
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Realität | reality; reality, fact; dasein |
| 2 | French | réalité | reality |
| 3 | Middle French | realité | property, possession |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | realitas | reality |
| 5 | Late Latin | realis | actual; real, actual |
| 6 | Latin | rēs | thing, object, stuff |
| 7 | Latin | vindicatio | civil lawsuit; protection, defence; vindication;... |
| 8 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 9 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 10 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 11 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 12 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 13 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 14 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 15 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 16 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 17 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via German fern
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | fern | remote; far away |
| 2 | Middle High German | verren | — |
| 3 | Old High German | ferrana | from afar |
| 4 | Old High German | ferro | afar; skipper |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *ferrō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | ferrai | far, distant |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | per-nóy | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |