Where does “multifacility” come from?
multifacility (English) comes from English facility, from Middle French facilité, from Latin facilitās, from French facilité, from Latin facilitatem, from Latin facilitas, from Latin facul, from Latin facilis.
multifacility (English): Having or relating to more than one facility
Definitions
- Having or relating to more than one facility
Ancestry of “multifacility”, step by step
multifacility traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English facility
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | facility | The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence... |
| 2 | Middle French | facilité | — |
| 3 | Latin | facilitās | ease, easiness, facility, readiness |
| 4 | French | facilité | ease, easiness; past participle of faciliter;... |
| 5 | Latin | facilitatem | accusative singular of facilitās |
| 6 | Latin | facilitas | ease, easiness, facility, readiness; willingness;... |
| 7 | Latin | facul | easily |
| 8 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 9 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 10 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 11 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 12 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 15 | 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 |