Where does “facilitate” come from?
Facilitate comes from French faciliter, from Latin facilis meaning easy, from Latin facio meaning to do or make, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- meaning to put or place.
facilitate (English): To make easy or easier; To help bring about; To...
Definitions
- To make easy or easier; To help bring about; To...
Ancestry of “facilitate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | faciliter | facilitate |
| 2 | Middle French | faciliter | — |
| 3 | Italian | facilitare | to facilitate; to ease, help |
| 4 | Italian | facile | easy; cosy; effortless |
| 5 | Spanish | fácil | easy, facile, simple; easy-to-use, user-friendly;... |
| 6 | Portuguese | fácil | easy |
| 7 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 8 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 9 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 10 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 11 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
Words derived from “facilitate”
- facilitating
- facilitator
- facilitation
- facilitative
- facilitatory
- cofacilitator
- nonfacilitative
- cofacilitation
- nonfacilitating
- facilitatively
- fasilitoida
- cofacilitate
- disfacilitate
- refacilitate
- nonfacilitator
- facilitator
- autofacilitatory
- disfacilitation
- disfacilitatory
- facilitativeness
- fasilitasi
- fasilitator
- fasilitointi
- hyperfacilitation