Etymology

Uniat

U·ni·at
U1N1I1A1T1
First used 19th c.Russian униат ← Polish uniat ← Latin ūniō
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromūniō“union”
  2. Polish · derived fromuniat“one having the characteristics of union”
  3. Russian · borrowed fromуниат“a united Greek”
  4. English todayUniat

19th c., borrowed from Russian униат (uniat, “a united Greek”, noun), from Polish uniat (“one having the characteristics of union”), from unia (“union”) + -at (“-ate”), from Latin ūniō (“union”).

Words from the same roots

Latinūniō all →

unio

First known use, by meaning

  • from 19th c. Alternative spelling of Uniate

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.