English
mandarinate
Mandarinate comes from French mandarin.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentmandarin
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentmandarinat
- Englishearliest quotation 1901mandarinate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Frenchc. 1600–presentmandarin
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentmandarinat
- Englishearliest quotation 1901mandarinate
Earliest quotation: 1901, Edward Alsworth Ross, Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order: “As higher education, claiming more and more years of…”
Formed from mandarin + -ate
Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to think’
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Sanskrit मन्त्र ‘counsel, maxim, mantra’
Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् ‘minister, councillor’
Malay menteri
Portuguese mandarim
English mandarin
Every English word from French mandarin
Today it means
noun The status of holding a position as a mandarin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French mandarin / mandarinate