Where does “háromnegyed” come from?
háromnegyed (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian negyed, from Hungarian négy, from Hungarian dimenziós, from Hungarian dimenzió, from Latin dimensio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
háromnegyed (Hungarian): three quarters; quarter to
Definitions
- three quarters; quarter to
Ancestry of “háromnegyed”, step by step
háromnegyed traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian negyed
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | negyed | quarter, fourth; district |
| 2 | Hungarian | négy | four |
| 3 | Hungarian | dimenziós | dimensional |
| 4 | Hungarian | dimenzió | dimension |
| 5 | Latin | dimensio | measuring; measurement; dimension |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |