Where does “disadvantageous” come from?

Disadvantageous derives from Middle English disavauntage, Old French -eux, Latin -osus, Old Latin -osos, Proto-Italic -owonssos, and ultimately Latin -o-wont-to-s, tracing the adjectival suffix through Romance and Indo-European languages.

disadvantageous (English): Not advantageous

Definitions

  1. Not advantageous

Ancestry of “disadvantageous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ousUsed to form adjectives from nouns, to denote...
2Middle English-ous—
3Old French-us-ous, used for forming adjectives
4Latin-ōsusose, -ous, -ful (full of or overly prone to)
5Old Latin-ōssus—

Words derived from “disadvantageous”

Every word from Old Latin -ōssus →Every word from Latin -ōsus →Every word from English -ous →