Where does “deceptive” come from?
Deceptive comes from Middle French déceptif, from Latin deceptivus, formed from the past participle of Latin capio meaning to take or seize, with the suffix -ivus.
deceptive (English): Likely or attempting to deceive
Definitions
- Likely or attempting to deceive
Ancestry of “deceptive”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle French | déceptif | — |
| 2 | Latin | deceptivus | deceptive |
| 3 | Latin | dēcipiō | — |
| 4 | Latin | dē- | — |
| 5 | Latin | dē | — |
| 6 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 7 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | posti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |
Words derived from “deceptive”