Where does “sarcasme” come from?

sarcasme (Dutch) 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.

sarcasme (Dutch): sarcasm

Definitions

  1. sarcasm

Ancestry of “sarcasme”, 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

Words derived from “sarcasme

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mós
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