Where does “parahallucination” come from?
parahallucination (English) comes from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō — to succeed, to prosper.
parahallucination (English): A hallucination caused by damage to the...
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- A hallucination caused by damage to the...
Ancestry of “parahallucination”, step by step
parahallucination traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via English hallucination
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | hallucination | A sensory perception of something that does not... |
| 2 | English | hallucinate | To seem to perceive things which are not really... |
| 3 | Latin | hallucinatus | — |
| 4 | Latin | alucinatus | hallucinated, experiencing hallucinations |
| 5 | Latin | alucinor | I wander in mind, talk idly, prate, dream |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ἀλύω | to wander in mind, to roam; to be deeply stirred,... |