Where does “capacitat” come from?
capacitat (Catalan) comes from Latin capācitās, from Latin capāx, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
capacitat (Catalan): capacity; capacity, capability, ability
Definitions
- capacity; capacity, capability, ability
Ancestry of “capacitat”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | capācitās | capability; capacity |
| 2 | Latin | capāx | That can contain or hold much; wide, large, spacious, capacious, roomy |
| 3 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 4 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 5 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |