Where does “adequacy” come from?

adequacy (English) comes from English adequate, from Latin adaequatus, from Latin adaequāre, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

adequacy (English): The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs

Definitions

  1. The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs

Ancestry of “adequacy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishadequateEqual to or fulfilling some requirement; To...
2Latinadaequatusequal; adequate
3Latinadaequāre
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-un-, non-, not
6Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én
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