Where does “suprarealist” come from?
suprarealist (Romanian) comes from Romanian suprareal, from Romanian real, from French réel, from Middle French real, from Old French reel, from Latin reālis, from Latin rēs, from Latin vindicatio — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
suprarealist (Romanian): surrealist
Definitions
- surrealist
Ancestry of “suprarealist”, step by step
suprarealist traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian suprareal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | suprareal | surreal |
| 2 | Romanian | real | real |
| 3 | French | réel | real |
| 4 | Middle French | real | royal; Alternative form of royal |
| 5 | Old French | reel | — |
| 6 | Latin | reālis | real |
| 7 | Latin | rēs | thing, object, stuff |
| 8 | Latin | vindicatio | civil lawsuit; protection, defence; vindication;... |
| 9 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 10 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 11 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 12 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 13 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 14 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 15 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 17 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 18 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |