Where does “evaporating” come from?
Evaporating comes from the Latin evaporatus, past participle of evaporo, meaning to scatter or disperse into vapor.
evaporating (English): present participle of evaporate
Definitions
- present participle of evaporate
Ancestry of “evaporating”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | evaporate | to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous... |
| 2 | Latin | ēvapōrātus | evaporated |
| 3 | Latin | evaporo | I evaporate |
| 4 | Latin | vaporo | I steam, reek; I smoke, fumigate |
| 5 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |