Where does “omnicredulity” come from?
omnicredulity (English) comes from English credulity, from Old French credulité, from Latin credulitas, from Latin crēdulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
omnicredulity (English): The quality of being omnicredulous
Definitions
- The quality of being omnicredulous
Ancestry of “omnicredulity”, step by step
omnicredulity traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English credulity
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | credulity | A willingness to believe in someone or something... |
| 2 | Old French | credulité | — |
| 3 | Latin | credulitas | credulity, easiness of belief |
| 4 | Latin | crēdulus | that easily believes a thing, easy of belief |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English omni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | omni | A person who is not vegan; one with no particular... |
| 2 | English | omnivore | An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore) |
| 3 | Latin | omnivorus | eating all things, all-devouring, omnivorous |
| 4 | Latin | -vorus | -eating, -devouring |
| 5 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 6 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |