Where does “facilitating” come from?
Facilitating comes from French faciliter, from Latin facilis meaning easy, derived from Latin facio meaning to do or make, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁-.
facilitating (English): present participle of facilitate
Definitions
- present participle of facilitate
Ancestry of “facilitating”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | facilitate | To make easy or easier; To help bring about; To... |
| 2 | French | faciliter | facilitate |
| 3 | Middle French | faciliter | — |
| 4 | Italian | facilitare | to facilitate; to ease, help |
| 5 | Italian | facile | easy; cosy; effortless |
| 6 | Spanish | fácil | easy, facile, simple; easy-to-use, user-friendly;... |
| 7 | Portuguese | fácil | easy |
| 8 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 9 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 10 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 11 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 12 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |