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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

  1. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money;...

Ancestry of “extravagance”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchextravaganceextravagance
2LatinvagorI ramble, wander, stroll about, roam, rove; I...
3Latin-orused to form a third-declension masculine...
4Proto-Italic-ōsCreates masculine action nouns or result nouns...
5Proto-Indo-European-ōsCreates masculine and feminine action nouns or...
6Proto-Indo-European-oss—
7Proto-Indo-European-osCreates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;...
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