Where does “commodity” come from?
Commodity comes from Middle English commoditee, from Anglo-Norman commoditee, from Latin commoditas meaning "fitness" or "advantage," derived from Latin commodus meaning "suitable," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European med- meaning "to measure."
commodity (English): Anything movable that is bought and sold;...
Definitions
- Anything movable that is bought and sold;...
Ancestry of “commodity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | commoditee | — |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | commoditee | — |
| 3 | Latin | commoditas | timeliness; fitness, aptness; convenience |
| 4 | Latin | commodus | comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful;... |
| 5 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 6 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
Words derived from “commodity”
- commodification
- commoditization
- commodify
- decommodification
- multicommodity
- commoditize
- commodifiable
- recommodification
- discommodity
- decommodify
- uncommodifiable
- recommodify
- commodifier
- noncommodifiable
- commodity meat
- biocommodity
- commodityism
- cryptocommodity
- commodity
- comódite
- komodita
- komoditi
- commodifiability
- commodificative