English
promotion
Promotion comes, via late Middle English, from Old French promocion, from Late Latin prōmōtiō, from Latin prōmoveō ‘to move forward’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōmoveō‘to move forward’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEprōmōtiō‘advancement’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400promocion
- Englishearliest quotation 1995promotion
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōmoveō‘to move forward’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEprōmōtiō‘advancement’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400promocion
- Englishearliest quotation 1995promotion
Earliest quotation: 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology: “By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure…”
Formed from promote + -ion
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’
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Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’
Latin moveō ‘to move’
Latin prōmoveō ‘move forward’
Latin prōmōtus ‘propelled’
English promote
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’
through Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
through Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’
move, momentum, automobile, automotive, immobile, emotionless, 87 more
through Latin moveō ‘move’
mobile, remove, auto, motor, remote, emotional, mobility, motive, emotion, removable, motivate, mobilize, motif, mobilization, mobilise, mobilisation, motility, emote, motile, 66 more
Today it means
noun An advancement in rank or position.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin prōmoveō / promotion