Where does “transaction” come from?
transaction (Middle French) comes from Old French transaccion, from Latin transactio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis-, from Latin calceus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
Ancestry of “transaction”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | transaccion | — |
| 2 | Latin | transactio | completion; agreement, transaction, deal |
| 3 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 4 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 5 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 6 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 8 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 9 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “transaction”
- transaction
- transactional
- transact
- subtransaction
- transactionally
- transactor
- nontransactional
- pretransaction
- transactionality
- transactionalism
- transactionalist
- transactable
- microtransaction
- transaction
- microtransaction
- supertransaction
- transactionless
- transactionnel
- e-transaction
- transactie
- cybertransaction
- mistransaction
- posttransaction
- transactionary