Where does “antipernicious” come from?
antipernicious (English) comes from English pernicious, from Old French pernicios, from French pernicieux, from Latin perniciōsus, from Latin perniciēs, from Latin pernecō, from Latin necō, from Latin nex — to perish, disappear.
antipernicious (English): That counters a pernicious disease
Definitions
- That counters a pernicious disease
Ancestry of “antipernicious”, step by step
antipernicious traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pernicious
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pernicious | Causing much harm in a subtle way; Causing death... |
| 2 | Old French | pernicios | — |
| 3 | French | pernicieux | Insidious. Having a slow and discreet, but... |
| 4 | Latin | perniciōsus | destructive, ruinous, baleful, pernicious |
| 5 | Latin | perniciēs | ruin, destruction |
| 6 | Latin | pernecō | to kill, slay outright |
| 7 | Latin | necō | to kill, murder (especially without physical wounding such as by poison or hunger) |
| 8 | Latin | nex | murder, slaughter, killing; violent death |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | neks | death, slaughter |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | neḱs | death |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | neḱ- | to perish, disappear |