Where does “expatriat” come from?
expatriat (Romanian) comes from Romanian expatria, from French expatrier, from French patrie, from Latin patria, from Latin patrius, from Latin iūs, from Latin dīcō, from Latin -tiō — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
expatriat (Romanian): expatriated
Definitions
- expatriated
Ancestry of “expatriat”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | expatria | to expatriate |
| 2 | French | expatrier | to expatriate, deport; to emigrate |
| 3 | French | patrie | homeland, home country, country of origin,... |
| 4 | Latin | patria | country; fatherland; home; nominative feminine... |
| 5 | Latin | patrius | father's, fatherly, paternal; hereditary;... |
| 6 | Latin | iūs | law, right |
| 7 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |