Where does “perfid” come from?
perfid (Viennese German) comes from French perfide, from Latin perfidus, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
Ancestry of “perfid”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | perfide | perfidious |
| 2 | Latin | perfidus | That breaks his promise; faithless, false,... |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |