Etymology

sportif

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Today it means: Synonym of cyclosportive. Full definition →

French sportif ← English sport ← Middle English sporten
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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. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*pr̥téh₂
  9. Proto-Italic*portā
  10. Proto-Italic*portāō
  11. Latinportāre
  12. Old Frenchporter
  13. Anglo-Normandesporter
  14. Middle Englishdisporten
  15. Middle Englishsporten
  16. Englishsport
  17. Frenchsport
  18. Frenchsportif
  19. English todaysportif

Borrowed from French sportif.

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