Where does “exvicecanciller” come from?
exvicecanciller (Spanish) comes from Spanish vicecanciller, from Spanish canciller, from Spanish chanciller, from Old French chancelier, from Latin cancellārius, from Latin cancelli, from Latin cancer, from Proto-Italic kankros — to cut, cut off, sever.
exvicecanciller (Spanish): former vice-chancellor
Definitions
- former vice-chancellor
Ancestry of “exvicecanciller”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | vicecanciller | vice-chancellor |
| 2 | Spanish | canciller | chancellor |
| 3 | Spanish | chanciller | Variant form of canciller |
| 4 | Old French | chancelier | chancellor |
| 5 | Latin | cancellārius | A kind of porter, doorkeeper |
| 6 | Latin | cancelli | inflection of cancellus: ## genitive singular ##... |
| 7 | Latin | cancer | a crab; a tumor, cancer; a lattice, grid, or... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kankros | crab |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | karkros | enclosure, barrier |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥-kr̥- | circular |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |