Where does “revanșism” come from?
revanșism (Romanian) comes from Romanian revanșă, from French revanche, from French revancher, from Old French revenchier, from Old French vengier, from Latin vindicō, from Latin vindex, from Latin dīcō — shoe.
revanșism (Romanian): revanchism
Definitions
- revanchism
Ancestry of “revanșism”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | revanșă | retaliation, revenge, requital; rematch |
| 2 | French | revanche | revenge; vengeance; rematch |
| 3 | French | revancher | to take revenge |
| 4 | Old French | revenchier | — |
| 5 | Old French | vengier | to avenge, to take revenge |
| 6 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 7 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 8 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |