Where does “estance” come from?
estance (Old French) comes from Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin stantia, from Latin stāns, from Latin stō, from Proto-Italic staēō, from Proto-Indo-European sth₂éh₁yeti, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
estance (Old French): stay; sojourn; situation; predicament
Definitions
- stay; sojourn; situation; predicament
Ancestry of “estance”, step by step
estance traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian stanza
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | stanza | room; stanza |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | stantia | standing, stopping-place; nominative neuter... |
| 3 | Latin | stāns | standing |
| 4 | Latin | stō | to stand |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | staēō | stand |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sth₂éh₁yeti | to stand |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |
via Latin stant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | stant | third-person plural present active indicative of... |