Where does “bagasse” come from?
Bagasse comes from French bagasse, from Spanish bagazo, ultimately from Latin -aceus and -ax suffixes with Proto-Indo-European roots.
bagasse (English): The residue from processing sugar cane after the...
Definitions
- The residue from processing sugar cane after the...
Ancestry of “bagasse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | bagasse | bagasse; residue of indigo after extracting the... |
| 2 | Spanish | bagazo | bagasse |
| 3 | Galician | -azo | Forming nouns denoting belonging, relation,... |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | -aço | — |
| 5 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 6 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 7 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 8 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |