Where does “batfaced” come from?

batfaced (English) comes from English bat, from French bât, from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin bastum, from Latin bastāre, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω — to lift, lift up, raise; to bear, carry; to carry...

batfaced (English): Whose face resembles that of a bat

Definitions

  1. Whose face resembles that of a bat

Ancestry of “batfaced”, step by step

batfaced traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English bat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbatAny of the flying mammals of the order...
2Frenchbâtpacksaddle
3Old Frenchbastpacksaddle
4Vulgar LatinbastumA stick
5Latinbastāre
6Ancient Greekβαστάζωto lift, lift up, raise; to bear, carry; to carry...

via English faced

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishfacedsimple past tense and past participle of face;...
2EnglishfaceThe front part of the head of a human or other...
3Middle Englishfaceface; Alternative form of fass
4Old Frenchfaceface
5Late Latinfacia
Every word from Ancient Greek βαστάζω