Where does “dificultós” come from?
dificultós (Catalan) comes from Catalan dificultar, from Latin difficulto, from Latin difficultas, from Latin difficilis, from Latin facilis, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius.
dificultós (Catalan): difficult, challenging
Definitions
- difficult, challenging
Ancestry of “dificultós”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | dificultar | to hinder, to make difficult; to interfere |
| 2 | Latin | difficulto | to hinder; to make difficult; to obstruct |
| 3 | Latin | difficultas | difficulty, distress, trouble, hardship |
| 4 | Latin | difficilis | difficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate,... |
| 5 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 6 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 7 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 8 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 9 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |