Where does “expedience” come from?
Expedience comes from Old French expedience, from Latin expedientia (a suffix -ia formation from expediēns, "suitable"), ultimately derived from Latin ex- and a root related to Proto-Indo-European pṓds meaning "foot."
expedience (English): The quality of being fit or suitable to cause...
Definitions
- The quality of being fit or suitable to cause...
Ancestry of “expedience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | expedience | — |
| 2 | Latin | expedientia | nominative neuter plural of expediēns; accusative... |
| 3 | Latin | expediens | expediting |
| 4 | Latin | expedio | I free feet from snares; unfasten fetters; lose... |
| 5 | Latin | pēs | a foot, in its senses as |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |