Etymology

superbank

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Today it means: A particularly large or powerful bank. Full definition →

English bank ← Middle French banque ← Italian banca
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
  8. Proto-Germanic*bankiz
  9. Proto-West Germanic*banki
  10. Lombardicbank
  11. Italianbanca
  12. Middle Frenchbanque
  13. Englishbank
  14. English todaysuperbank

From super- + bank.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.