Where does “propriete” come from?
propriete (Middle English) comes from Middle French proprieté, from Latin proprietās, from Latin -tās, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂ts, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
propriete (Middle English): ownership
Definitions
- ownership
Ancestry of “propriete”, step by step
propriete traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French proprieté
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | proprieté | — |
| 2 | Latin | proprietās | quality, property, peculiarity, character |
| 3 | Latin | -tās | ty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via Anglo-Norman propreté
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anglo-Norman | propreté | ownership; property |