Etymology

counterbattery

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Today it means: Directed against opposing artillery. Full definition →

English battery ← Middle French batterie ← Old French baterie
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Proto-Italic*komteros
  6. Proto-Italic*komterād
  7. Latincontrā
  8. Old Frenchcontre-
  9. Anglo-Normancountre-
  10. Middle Englishcounter-
  11. Englishcounter-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-
  13. Latinbattuō
  14. Latinbattere
  15. Old Frenchbatre
  16. Old Frenchbaterie
  17. Middle Frenchbatterie
  18. Englishbattery
  19. English todaycounterbattery

From counter- + battery.

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