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Where does “satisfaire” come from?

satisfaire (Old French) comes from Latin satisfacere, from French faire, from Middle French faire, from Old French faire, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.

satisfaire (Old French): to pay

Definitions

  1. to pay

Ancestry of “satisfaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsatisfacerepresent active infinitive of satisfaciō
2Frenchfaireto do; to make; to say , to go
3Middle Frenchfaireto do; to make; to choose; to elect
4Old Frenchfaireto do
5Latinfaciō—
6Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
7Latin-tōrius—
8Latin-tor-er
9Proto-Italic-tōr—
10Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
11Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →