Where does “fatty” come from?
Fatty comes from Middle English -y, from Middle French -ie, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ivus, from Latin -ia, from Proto-Indo-European -kos.
fatty (English): Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat;...
Definitions
- Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat;...
Ancestry of “fatty”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fat | Carrying more fat than usual on one's body;... |
| 2 | French | fat | conceited |
| 3 | Old Occitan | fat | — |
| 4 | Latin | fatuus | foolish, silly, simple; stupid; insipid,... |
| 5 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 6 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |