Where does “meia-entrada” come from?
meia-entrada (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese entrada, from Old Portuguese entrada, from Old Portuguese entrar, from Latin intrare, from Latin intro, from Latin intra, from Latin interus, from Proto-Indo-European h₁énteros — Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.
meia-entrada (Portuguese): a ticket sold for half its normal price as required by law, generally for students, low-income young adults, disabled people, and elderly ones to education and leisure events
Definitions
- a ticket sold for half its normal price as required by law, generally for students, low-income young adults, disabled people, and elderly ones to education and leisure events
Ancestry of “meia-entrada”, step by step
meia-entrada traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese entrada
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | entrada | entrance; appetizer; ticket |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | entrada | — |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | entrar | — |
| 4 | Latin | intrare | present active infinitive of intrō; second-person... |
| 5 | Latin | intro | I enter, go into, penetrate; within |
| 6 | Latin | intra | within; inside; during; less than |
| 7 | Latin | interus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁énteros | inside, within |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -teros | Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix |
via Portuguese meia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | meia | sock; Short for meia-entrada; obsolete unit of... |
| 2 | Portuguese | meia dúzia | half a dozen; couple |
| 3 | Portuguese | dúzia | dozen |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | ducea | — |
| 5 | Latin | duodecim | twelve; 12; dozen |
| 6 | Latin | decem | ten; 10 |
| 7 | Latin | -nus | -an |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -nos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -nós | Creates verbal adjectives from roots |