Where does “schwadronieren” come from?
schwadronieren (German) comes from German Schwadron, from Italian squadrone, from Italian squadra, from Italian squadrare, from Vulgar Latin exquadra, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
schwadronieren (German): To talk in a voluminous and excited manner; to...
Definitions
- To talk in a voluminous and excited manner; to...
Ancestry of “schwadronieren”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Schwadron | squadron |
| 2 | Italian | squadrone | squadron |
| 3 | Italian | squadra | set square, triangle; team, squad, group, side;... |
| 4 | Italian | squadrare | To delimit in a square or rectangular shape; to... |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | exquadra | — |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |