Where does “tổng giáo phận” come from?

tổng giáo phận (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese giáo phận, from Vietnamese phân, from Chinese 粉, from English fans, from English fan, from English fanatic, from French fanatique, from Latin fānāticus — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.

tổng giáo phận (Vietnamese): archdiocese

Definitions

  1. archdiocese

Ancestry of “tổng giáo phận”, step by step

tổng giáo phận traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese giáo phận

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesegiáo phậndiocese
2Vietnamesephânstool; faeces; excrement; fertiliser; manure; an...
3Chinesevermicelli
4Englishfansplural of fan; Third-person singular simple...
5EnglishfanA hand-held device consisting of concertinaed...
6EnglishfanaticFanatical; Showing evidence of possession by a...
7Frenchfanatiquefanatic, fanatical; fanatic
8Latinfānāticustemple
9Latin-aticusUsed to form adjectives indicating a relation to...
10Latin-ātused
11Proto-Italic-ātos
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tosForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality

via Vietnamese tổng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetổnga sum; arch-
2Middle Chinese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos
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