Where does “maggot-pated” come from?
maggot-pated (English) comes from English pated, from English pâté, from French pâté, from French pâte, from Middle French paste, from Old French pasté, from Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά — to shake.
maggot-pated (English): Having little sense; full of whims; capricious; maggoty
Definitions
- Having little sense; full of whims; capricious; maggoty
Ancestry of “maggot-pated”, step by step
maggot-pated traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pated
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pated | Having a pate or a particular type of pate |
| 2 | English | pâté | A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or... |
| 3 | French | pâté | paste; pâté |
| 4 | French | pâte | paste; pastry; dough; batter; pastas |
| 5 | Middle French | paste | — |
| 6 | Old French | pasté | pie or a similar baked good |
| 7 | Latin | pasta | paste; nominative/vocative feminine singular of... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | παστά | barley porridge |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | παστός | sprinkled with salt, salted; woman's chamber,... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | πάσσω | I sprinkle |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeh₁t- | to shake |