Where does “extravagance” come from?
Extravagance comes from French extravagance, from Latin vagor meaning to wander, combined with Latin exter meaning outside.
extravagance (English): Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money;...
Definitions
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money;...
Ancestry of “extravagance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | extravagance | extravagance |
| 2 | Latin | vagor | I ramble, wander, stroll about, roam, rove; I... |
| 3 | Latin | -or | used to form a third-declension masculine... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ōs | Creates masculine action nouns or result nouns... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōs | Creates masculine and feminine action nouns or... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -oss | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |