Where does “perfid” come from?
perfid (Hungarian) comes from Viennese German perfid, from French perfide, from Latin perfidus, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
perfid (Hungarian): perfidious
Definitions
- perfidious
Ancestry of “perfid”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viennese German | perfid | — |
| 2 | French | perfide | perfidious |
| 3 | Latin | perfidus | That breaks his promise; faithless, false,... |
| 4 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |