Where does “partisan” come from?
partisan (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Italian partigiano, from Italian -igiano, from Latin -ensis, from Latin arvum, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
partisan (Norwegian Nynorsk): a partisan
Ancestry of “partisan”, step by step