Where does “honorary” come from?
Honorary derives from Latin -arius and -alis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -li-, suffixes that formed adjectives indicating relation or belonging.
honorary (English): Given as an honor/honour, with no duties...
Definitions
- Given as an honor/honour, with no duties...
Ancestry of “honorary”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Honor | — |
| 2 | English | Honoria | — |
| 3 | English | Honorius | — |
| 4 | Latin | Honorius | — |
| 5 | Latin | honorus | conferring honour |
| 6 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 7 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
Words derived from “honorary”