Where does “privilegiare” come from?
privilegiare (Italian) comes from Romanian privilegia, from French privilégier, from French privilège, from Old French privilege, from Latin prīvilēgium, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
privilegiare (Italian): to favour
Definitions
- to favour
Ancestry of “privilegiare”, step by step
privilegiare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian privilegia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | privilegia | to privilege |
| 2 | French | privilégier | to privilege, to favour |
| 3 | French | privilège | privilege |
| 4 | Old French | privilege | privilege benefit only given to certain people |
| 5 | Latin | prīvilēgium | A law or bill concerning a specific individual |
| 6 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via Italian privilegio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | privilegio | privilege; first-person singular present... |