Where does “beneficeless” come from?
beneficeless (English) comes from English benefice, from Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium, from Latin beneficus, from Latin bene, from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, from Proto-Italic dwenos — to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be...
beneficeless (English): Without a benefice
Definitions
- Without a benefice
Ancestry of “beneficeless”, step by step
beneficeless traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English benefice
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | benefice | Land granted to a priest in a church that has a... |
| 2 | Old French | benefice | benefice; favour, advantage; benefit |
| 3 | Latin | beneficium | benefit; favour; kindness |
| 4 | Latin | beneficus | beneficent; generous, liberal |
| 5 | Latin | bene | well; properly, exactly; agreeably, favorably |
| 6 | Latin | bonus | good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant;... |
| 7 | Old Latin | duenos | Alternative form of duonus |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | dwenos | good |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |