Etymology

Descartes

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Today it means: A surname from French Full definition →

French Descartes ← Old French descartesder.? ← Latin charta
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Old Frenchdes-
  7. Ancient Greekχάρτης (khártēs)
  8. Latincharta
  9. Old Frenchcartes
  10. Old Frenchdescartesder.?
  11. FrenchDescartes
  12. English todayDescartes

Unadapted borrowing from French Descartes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.