Where does “инжењер” come from?
инжењер (Serbo-Croatian) comes from French ingénieur, from Old French engigneor, from Latin ingeniator, from Latin ingeniārius, from Latin ingenium, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere, from Latin genus — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
инжењер (Serbo-Croatian): engineer
Definitions
- engineer
Ancestry of “инжењер”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | ingénieur | engineer; conductor |
| 2 | Old French | engigneor | deceiver; one who deceives; engineer |
| 3 | Latin | ingeniator | engineer |
| 4 | Latin | ingeniārius | an engineer |
| 5 | Latin | ingenium | innate or natural quality, natural character;... |
| 6 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 8 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |