Where does “contrariété” come from?
contrariété (Middle French) comes from Latin contrarietas, from Latin contrarius, from Latin contrā, from Latin ubī, from Latin cubī, from Proto-Italic *kʷuðei — where.
Ancestry of “contrariété”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | contrarietas | opposition, contrariety |
| 2 | Latin | contrarius | opposite, opposed, contrary, conflicting,... |
| 3 | Latin | contrā | against |
| 4 | Latin | ubī | where? in what place?, in which place? |
| 5 | Latin | cubī | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *kʷuðei | where |