Where does “sarkasme” come from?

sarkasme (Danish) comes from French sarcasme, from Latin sarcasmus, from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός, from Ancient Greek -μός, from Proto-Indo-European -mós — Creates action/result nouns from verb stems.

sarkasme (Danish): sarcasm

Definitions

  1. sarcasm

Ancestry of “sarkasme”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsarcasmesarcasm
2Latinsarcasmussarcasm
3Ancient Greekσαρκασμόςbitter irony; sarcasm
4Ancient Greek-μόςForms abstract nouns
5Proto-Indo-European-mósCreates action/result nouns from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mós →Every word from Ancient Greek -μός →Every word from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός →