Where does “animalivory” come from?
animalivory (English) comes from English animalivore, from English vore, from English Vaux, from English -ite, from French -ité, from Latin -īta, from Ancient Greek -ίτης, from Ancient Greek πολῑ́της — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
animalivory (English): The eating of animals; animalivorousness
Definitions
- The eating of animals; animalivorousness
Ancestry of “animalivory”, step by step
animalivory traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English animalivore
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | animalivore | A creature that eats animals |
| 2 | English | vore | The genre of creative work appreciated by... |
| 3 | English | Vaux | One of four communes in France |
| 4 | English | -ite | Used to form nouns denoting followers or... |
| 5 | French | -ité | Alternative form of -té, giving a quality or... |
| 6 | Latin | -īta | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ίτης | Suffix forming a masculine noun: one connected... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |