Where does “privatdetektiv” come from?
privatdetektiv (Swedish) comes from Swedish privat, from Latin prīvātus, from Latin prīvō, from French ferriprive, from Latin ferrum, from Cornish -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er.
privatdetektiv (Swedish): a private investigator, a private eye
Definitions
- a private investigator, a private eye
Ancestry of “privatdetektiv”, step by step
privatdetektiv traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish privat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | privat | private; privately owned, privately held;... |
| 2 | Latin | prīvātus | bereaved, deprived, robbed or stripped of something, having been deprived of something |
| 3 | Latin | prīvō | to bereave, deprive, rob or strip of something |
| 4 | French | ferriprive | Suffering from a deficiency of iron |
| 5 | Latin | ferrum | iron; any tool made of iron; fight, clash |
| 6 | Cornish | -er | Forms masculine agent nouns |
| 7 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 8 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 9 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 10 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
via Swedish detektiv
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | detektiv | detective |
| 2 | English | detective | A police officer who looks for evidence as part... |
| 3 | English | detect | to discover or find by careful search,... |
| 4 | Latin | detectus | uncovered, revealed, disclosed |
| 5 | Latin | dē- | of; from |
| 6 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 7 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 8 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |