Where does “doreure” come from?
doreure (Old French) comes from Old French dorer, from Latin deaurātus, from Latin deaurō, from Latin aurō, from Latin aurum, from Latin ausum, from Latin ausus, from Latin audeō.
doreure (Old French): gold; goldenness
Definitions
- gold; goldenness
Ancestry of “doreure”, step by step
doreure traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French dorer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | dorer | to {{l|en|gild}} |
| 2 | Latin | deaurātus | gilded |
| 3 | Latin | deaurō | to gild; cover with gold |
| 4 | Latin | aurō | to gild |
| 5 | Latin | aurum | gold; any object made of gold, such as a gold... |
| 6 | Latin | ausum | nominative neuter singular of ausus; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | ausus | dared, having dared, ventured, having ventured,... |
| 8 | Latin | audeō | to dare, venture, risk |
| 9 | Latin | avidus | Greedy, avaricious, covetous; Eager,... |
| 10 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |