Where does “ブルーバック” come from?
ブルーバック (Japanese) comes from Japanese バック, from English back, from French bac, from French baccalauréat, from Medieval Latin baccalaureatus, from Latin baccalaureus, from Latin laurea, from Latin laurus — Forms comparative adjectives.
ブルーバック (Japanese): blue screen
Definitions
- blue screen
Ancestry of “ブルーバック”, step by step
ブルーバック traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese バック
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | バック | back; go back |
| 2 | English | back | Near the rear; Not current; Far from the main... |
| 3 | French | bac | ferry; vat; high school exit exam in France; A... |
| 4 | French | baccalauréat | baccalaureat; bachelor's degree |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | baccalaureatus | bachelor's degree |
| 6 | Latin | baccalaureus | bachelor |
| 7 | Latin | laurea | laurel, bay tree; crown, wreath or branch of... |
| 8 | Latin | laurus | laurel tree; laurels; a crown of laurel |
| 9 | English | -aceous | Of, relating to, resembling or containing the... |
| 10 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 11 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 12 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 13 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
via Japanese ブルー
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | ブルー | blue |
| 2 | English | Blue | A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge; A member of... |
| 3 | Middle English | blēwe | — |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | blew | blue |
| 5 | Middle French | bleu | blue |
| 6 | Old French | blöe | blue |
| 7 | Latvian | blāvus | accusative plural masculine form of blāvs |
| 8 | Old High German | blāo | blue, dark, grey; blue; yellow |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | blāu | blue |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blēwaz | blue; a dark bluish or grey colour, black |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰlēw- | yellow, blond, grey |