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Where does “absurdly” come from?

Absurdly comes from Middle French absurde, from Latin absurdus, combining Latin ab and a root ultimately from Proto-Indo-European līg- and ḱóm.

absurdly (English): In an absurd fashion; To an extreme degree

Definitions

  1. In an absurd fashion; To an extreme degree

Ancestry of “absurdly”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishabsurdContrary to reason or propriety; obviously and...
2Middle Frenchabsurde—
3Latinabsurdusdiscordant, harsh; incongruous, inconsistent,...
4Latinabsonusharsh, discordant; unsuitable, incongruous
5Latin-sonus—
6Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
7Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
8Proto-Italic-os—
9Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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