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

  1. To make easy or easier; To help bring about; To...

Ancestry of “facilitate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfaciliterfacilitate
2Middle Frenchfaciliter
3Italianfacilitareto facilitate; to ease, help
4Italianfacileeasy; cosy; effortless
5Spanishfácileasy, facile, simple; easy-to-use, user-friendly;...
6Portuguesefácileasy
7Latinfacilisthat may or can be done or made; easy, facile
8Latinfaciōto do
9Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
10Latin-tōriusory
11Latin-tor-er
12Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
13Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
14Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

Words derived from “facilitate

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s