Where does “rendőrállam” come from?

rendőrállam (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian állam, from Hungarian -ám, from Portuguese -ão, from Old Portuguese -ão, from Latin -ānus — Of or pertaining to; -ian.

rendőrállam (Hungarian): police state a polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people

Definitions

  1. police state a polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people

Ancestry of “rendőrállam”, step by step

rendőrállam traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian állam

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianállamstate; first-person singular single-possession...
2Hungarian-ámAdded to a stem or other parts of speech to form...
3Portuguese-ãoforms the augmentative of nouns; forms the...
4Old Portuguese-ão—
5Latin-ānusOf or pertaining to; -ian

via Hungarian rendőr

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianrendőrpolice officer, policeman
2Hungarianrendorder
3Proto-Slavicrędъrow
4Proto-Balto-Slavicrind-—
Every word from Latin -ānus →Every word from Portuguese -ão →Every word from Hungarian -ám →