Where does “expensefully” come from?
expensefully (English) comes from English expenseful, from English expense, from Middle English expense, from Old French espense, from Late Latin expensa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo — beside, near, by, with.
expensefully (English): In an expenseful manner
Definitions
- In an expenseful manner
Ancestry of “expensefully”, step by step
expensefully traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English expenseful
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | expenseful | Full of expense; costly; chargeable |
| 2 | English | expense | A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of... |
| 3 | Middle English | expense | — |
| 4 | Old French | espense | — |
| 5 | Late Latin | expensa | nominative feminine singular of expēnsus;... |
| 6 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 7 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 8 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 9 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 10 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 11 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 12 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 13 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 14 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |