Where does “evaporate” come from?
Evaporate comes from Latin evaporatus, the past participle of Latin evaporo, meaning to turn into vapor or disperse as steam.
evaporate (English): to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous...
Definitions
- to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous...
Ancestry of “evaporate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | ēvapōrātus | evaporated |
| 2 | Latin | evaporo | I evaporate |
| 3 | Latin | vaporo | I steam, reek; I smoke, fumigate |
| 4 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |