Where does “fait accompli” come from?
fait accompli (Portuguese) comes from French fait accompli, from French fait, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
fait accompli (Portuguese): fait accompli; done deal
Definitions
- fait accompli; done deal
Ancestry of “fait accompli”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fait accompli | a fait accompli, a done deal |
| 2 | French | fait | fact; third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 3 | Latin | factus | done, made, having been done or made; became |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |