Where does “oblivious” come from?
Oblivious comes from Latin obliviosus, formed with the suffix -osus from obliviscor meaning to forget, with the prefix ob- intensifying the root ultimately traced to Ancient Greek βέλος.
oblivious (English): Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware,...
Definitions
- Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware,...
Ancestry of “oblivious”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | obliviosus | forgetful, oblivious; wreaking forgetfulness,... |
| 2 | Latin | oblīvium | forgetfulness |
| 3 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 4 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |