Where does “digmaang sibil” come from?
digmaang sibil (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog digmaan, from Latin digma, from Ancient Greek δεῖγμα, from Ancient Greek μά, from Old Italian ma, from Latin magis, from Dutch magisch, from Dutch magie.
digmaang sibil (Tagalog): civil war
Definitions
- civil war
Ancestry of “digmaang sibil”, step by step
digmaang sibil traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog digmaan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | digmaan | war; battle |
| 2 | Latin | digma | A specimen; An ensign on the shields of soldiers |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | δεῖγμα | specimen, sample; pattern |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μά | by |
| 5 | Old Italian | ma | — |
| 6 | Latin | magis | more; more greatly; better |
| 7 | Dutch | magisch | magical, controlled or determined by supernatural... |
| 8 | Dutch | magie | magic, sorcery occult woo, black or white magic, etc.; hence supernatural occurrences or phenonomena |
| 9 | French | magie | magic; A magical, surprising, fascinating feat;... |
| 10 | Middle French | magie | — |
| 11 | Latin | magīa | magic, sorcery |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | μαγεία | theology of the Magians |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | Μάγος | magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster,... |
| 14 | Old Persian | 𐎶𐎦𐏁 | priest |
| 15 | Proto-Iranian | magúš | — |
via Tagalog sibil
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | sibil | civil; of a citizen |
| 2 | Spanish | civil | civil all senses |
| 3 | Latin | cīvīlis | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Spanish guerra civil
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | guerra civil | civil war |