Where does “multideficiency” come from?
multideficiency (English) comes from English deficiency, from English deficient, from Latin dēficiens, from Latin deficere, from Latin defectus, from Latin deficio, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
multideficiency (English): deficiency
Definitions
- deficiency
Ancestry of “multideficiency”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | deficiency | Inadequacy or incompleteness; An insufficiency,... |
| 2 | English | deficient | Lacking something essential; "often construed... |
| 3 | Latin | dēficiens | failing, disappointing |
| 4 | Latin | deficere | present active infinitive of dēficiō;... |
| 5 | Latin | defectus | failure; absence; weakness, failing, defect |
| 6 | Latin | deficio | I withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,... |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |