English
realisation
Realisation comes from French réalisation ‘realization, fulfilment’, from Middle French real ‘actual’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís ‘wealth, goods’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*reh₁ís‘wealth, goods’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*reis‘thing, matter’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErēs‘thing, event, deed, fact’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEreālis‘existing in fact, having objective existence’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400reel
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600real‘actual’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentréaliser‘to fulfill (a dream)’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentréalisation‘realization, fulfilment’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020realisation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*reh₁ís‘wealth, goods’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*reis‘thing, matter’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErēs‘thing, event, deed, fact’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEreālis‘existing in fact, having objective existence’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400reel
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600real‘actual’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentréaliser‘to fulfill (a dream)’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentréalisation‘realization, fulfilment’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020realisation
Earliest quotation: 2020, Christian Wolmar, Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy: “A widening of the M4 had long been mooted,…”
Linked words
through Latin rēs ‘thing, event, deed, fact’
through Old French reel
through Middle French real ‘actual’
through French réalisation ‘realization, fulfilment’
Today it means
noun —
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís / realisation