Etymograph

English

estate

Estate comes from Anglo-Norman estat, from Latin status ‘condition, state’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*steh₂-1‘to stand’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*status1‘setting up’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstatus1‘condition, state’
  4. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400estat1
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500estat1
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1485estate1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English estate
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, xj: “And anone came oute of a chamber to hym…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*steh₂-Wiktionary, English estate‘to stand’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*statusWiktionary, English estate‘setting up’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstatusWiktionary, English estate‘condition, state’
  4. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400estatWiktionary, English estate
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500estatWiktionary, English estate
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1485estateWiktionary, English estate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, xj: “And anone came oute of a chamber to hym…”

Word family

English words that share an ancestor with estate, grouped by the ancestor they share, most familiar first.

through Latin status

  • institute ← īnstitūtus ← īnstituō ← statuō
  • institution ← institucioun ← institūtiō ← instituō ← statuō
  • status
  • substitute ← substituten ← substitutus ← statuō
  • constitute ← constituten ← cōnstitūtum ← cōnstituō ← statuō
  • constituent ← cōnstituēns ← cōnstituō ← statuō
  • statue ← statua ← statuō
  • statute ← statut ← statut ← statutum ← statutus
  • stade ← estado
  • estado

5 more relatives in the full family tree

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Today it means

noun The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “estate”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- / estate