Where does “costlessly” come from?
costlessly (English) comes from English costless, from English cost, from Middle English cost, from Middle English costen, from Old French couster, from Medieval Latin costo, from Latin consto, from Latin com- — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
costlessly (English): without cost
Ancestry of “costlessly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | costless | having no cost |
| 2 | English | cost | To incur a charge of; to require payment of a ... |
| 3 | Middle English | cost | means |
| 4 | Middle English | costen | to cost |
| 5 | Old French | couster | Alternative form of coster; to cost |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | costo | — |
| 7 | Latin | consto | to stand together; to stand still; to remain the... |
| 8 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 9 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |