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Where does “gendarme” come from?

gendarme (Spanish) comes from French gendarme, from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

gendarme (Spanish): policeman

Definitions

  1. policeman

Ancestry of “gendarme”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchgendarmeA member of the gendarmerie, a military body...
2Frenchgendarmesplural of gendarme
3Frenchgensset of people
4Frenchgentsplural of gent; masculine plural of gent
5Old Frenchgentpeople, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;...
6Latingenitusbegotten; engendered; produced
7Latingigneresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
8Latingenereablative singular of genus; to beget, produce
9Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
10Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
12Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth

Words derived from “gendarme”

  • gendarmes
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