Where does “revanchieren” come from?
revanchieren (German) comes from German Revanche, from French revanche, from French revancher, from Old French revenchier, from Old French vengier, from Latin vindicō, from Latin vindex, from Latin dīcō — shoe.
revanchieren (German): to repay, return the favor; to take revenge; to...
Definitions
- to repay, return the favor; to take revenge; to...
Ancestry of “revanchieren”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Revanche | revenge; revanche |
| 2 | French | revanche | revenge; vengeance; rematch |
| 3 | French | revancher | to take revenge |
| 4 | Old French | revenchier | — |
| 5 | Old French | vengier | to avenge, to take revenge |
| 6 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 7 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 8 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |