Where does “calculably” come from?
calculably (English) comes from English calculable, from English calculate, from Latin calculātus, from Latin calculō, from Latin calculus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
calculably (English): In a calculable manner
Definitions
- In a calculable manner
Ancestry of “calculably”, step by step
calculably traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English calculable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | calculable | Able to be calculated |
| 2 | English | calculate | To determine the value of something or the... |
| 3 | Latin | calculātus | Calculated, computed, reckoned, having been calculated |
| 4 | Latin | calculō | to calculate, compute, reckon |
| 5 | Latin | calculus | diminutive of calx; pebble, stone; reckoning,... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |