Where does “passionsfrukt” come from?
passionsfrukt (Swedish) comes from Swedish passion, from French passion, from Middle French passion, from Old French passion, from Latin passiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
passionsfrukt (Swedish): a passion fruit
Definitions
- a passion fruit
Ancestry of “passionsfrukt”, step by step
passionsfrukt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish passion
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | passion | passion |
| 2 | French | passion | Passion, suffering |
| 3 | Middle French | passion | passion |
| 4 | Old French | passion | passion (suffering) |
| 5 | Latin | passiō | suffering; enduring |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Swedish frukt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | frukt | fruit |
| 2 | Old Swedish | frukt | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | fruktr | — |
| 4 | Middle Low German | vrucht | — |
| 5 | Old Saxon | fruht | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *fruht | fruit |
| 7 | Latin | frūctus | enjoyed; having derived pleasure from |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | δῶρον | gift; hand's width |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | dṓron | gift |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | déh₃rom | gift |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₃- | to give |