Where does “terrorisme” come from?
terrorisme (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from French terrorisme, from French terreur, from Middle French terreur, from Old French terreur, from Latin terror, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius.
terrorisme (Norwegian Bokmål): terrorism
Ancestry of “terrorisme”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | terrorisme | terrorism |
| 2 | French | terreur | terror; terrorcore |
| 3 | Middle French | terreur | terror |
| 4 | Old French | terreur | terror |
| 5 | Latin | terror | a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic; an... |
| 6 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 7 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 8 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 9 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |