Where does “plainte” come from?
plainte (Middle English) comes from Old French pleinte, from Latin plancta, from Latin planctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
Ancestry of “plainte”, step by step
plainte traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French pleinte
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | pleinte | lament; complaint |
| 2 | Latin | plancta | nominative feminine singular of plānctus;... |
| 3 | Latin | planctus | struck, beaten; bewailed, lamented, mourned;... |
| 4 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
via Anglo-Norman plainte
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anglo-Norman | plainte | lamentation; lament, complaint |