Where does “diseaselike” come from?
diseaselike (English) comes from English disease, from Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise, from Old French eise, from Latin adiacēns, from Latin adiaceo, from Latin ad- — in.
diseaselike (English): Resembling a disease or some aspect of one
Definitions
- Resembling a disease or some aspect of one
Ancestry of “diseaselike”, step by step
diseaselike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English disease
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | disease | An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant... |
| 2 | Middle English | disese | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | desese | — |
| 4 | Old French | desaise | disease; deformity; melancholy |
| 5 | Old French | eise | ease |
| 6 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 7 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English like
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | like | To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of;... |
| 2 | Dutch | luik | hatch; shutter; panel, as in a triptych |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | luke | — |
| 4 | Dutch | luiken | to close, to shut |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | luken | to close, to shut; to close, to become closed |
| 6 | Old Dutch | lūcan | to close, shut |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | lūkan | to close, to shut |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | lūkaną | to close, to shut; Alternative form of *leukaną |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | lewǵ- | to break, tear; to break, shatter |