Where does “antipoverty” come from?
Antipoverty derives from English poverty with the prefix Ancient Greek ἀντί meaning against, from Proto-Indo-European h₂en- meaning not or without.
antipoverty (English): that serves to alleviate poverty
Definitions
- that serves to alleviate poverty
Ancestry of “antipoverty”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | poverty | The quality or state of being poor; lack of... |
| 2 | Old French | poverté | poverty; poorness |
| 3 | Latin | paupertās | the state of being poor, poverty; need, indigence |
| 4 | Latin | -tās | ty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |