Where does “edacity” come from?

edacity (English) comes from Latin edacitas, from Latin edax, from Latin edō, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

edacity (English): Greediness; voracity; rapacity

Definitions

  1. Greediness; voracity; rapacity

Ancestry of “edacity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinedacitasvoracity, gluttony
2Latinedaxgreedy, gluttonous, rapacious, voracious,...
3Latinedōto eat
4Latin-ilis-ile
5Proto-Italic-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-elis—
7Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ilis →Every word from Latin edō →