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Where does “dissatisfied” come from?

Dissatisfied comes from English satisfy, derived from Latin dis- (expressing reversal) combined with Latin satisfacere, ultimately tracing through Proto-Indo-European dwóh₁ and Latin ad-.

dissatisfied (English): Feeling or displaying disappointment or a lack of...

Definitions

  1. Feeling or displaying disappointment or a lack of...

Ancestry of “dissatisfied”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishsatisfiedsimple past tense and past participle of satisfy;...
2EnglishsatisfyTo do enough for; to meet the needs of; to...
3Middle Englishsatisfyen—
4Old Frenchsatisfierto satisfy; to pay
5Latinsatisfacerepresent active infinitive of satisfaciō
6Frenchfaireto do; to make; to say , to go
7Middle Frenchfaireto do; to make; to choose; to elect
8Old Frenchfaireto do
9Latinfaciō—
10Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
11Latin-tōrius—
12Latin-tor-er
13Proto-Italic-tōr—
14Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
15Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “dissatisfied”

  • dissatisfiedness
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