Where does “fatuous” come from?

Fatuous comes from Latin fatuus, from Proto-Indo-European bʰat-, with the original sense referring to something foolish or insipid.

fatuous (English): Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in...

Definitions

  1. Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in...

Ancestry of “fatuous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfatuusfoolish, silly, simple; stupid; insipid,...
2Latinfātusspoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc
3Latinfor"defective"; I speak, talk, say
4Proto-Italicfāōrspeak
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰéh₂tito speak, to be talking

Words derived from “fatuous”

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