Etymology of the English word policeman
the English word
policemanderived from the English word
policederived from the French word
policederived from the Old French word
policiederived from the Late Latin word
politiaderived from the Greek word
politeia, πολιτεία (citizenship; concretely, a community)
derived from the Greek word
polites, πολίτης (a townsman)
derived from the Greek word
polis, πόλις (a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size))
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*pelə-using the English suffix
-manderived from the English word
manderived from the Proto-Germanic root
*manwazderived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*man-Derivations in other languages
Italian
policemanUsage
Word found in Modern English
