Where does “multideficient” come from?
multideficient (English) comes from English deficient, from Latin dēficiens, from Latin deficere, from Latin defectus, from Latin deficio, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius.
multideficient (English): Having two or more deficiencies
Definitions
- Having two or more deficiencies
Ancestry of “multideficient”, step by step
multideficient traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English deficient
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | deficient | Lacking something essential; "often construed... |
| 2 | Latin | dēficiens | failing, disappointing |
| 3 | Latin | deficere | present active infinitive of dēficiō;... |
| 4 | Latin | defectus | failure; absence; weakness, failing, defect |
| 5 | Latin | deficio | I withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,... |
| 6 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 7 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 8 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 9 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via English multi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | multi | A multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus |
| 2 | English | multituberculate | Having molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of... |
| 3 | English | tuberculate | Having tubercles; Tubercular |
| 4 | Latin | tuberculatus | warty, tuberculate |
| 5 | Latin | tūberculum | a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle |
| 6 | Latin | tūber | a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tūβos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |