Where does “honorlessness” come from?
honorlessness (English) comes from English honorless, from English Honor, from English Honoria, from English Honorius, from Latin Honorius, from Latin honorus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
honorlessness (English): Lack of honor
Definitions
- Lack of honor
Ancestry of “honorlessness”, step by step
honorlessness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English honorless
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | honorless | Alternative spelling of honourless |
| 2 | English | Honor | of importance or value; respect; veneration of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful |
| 3 | English | Honoria | the Latinized feminine of Honorius |
| 4 | English | Honorius | — |
| 5 | Latin | Honorius | A Roman Emperor, Honorius |
| 6 | Latin | honorus | conferring honour |
| 7 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 8 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |