Where does “parahippocampus” come from?
parahippocampus (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.
parahippocampus (English): A cortical region of grey matter that surrounds...
Definitions
- A cortical region of grey matter that surrounds...
Ancestry of “parahippocampus”, step by step
parahippocampus 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 hippocampus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | hippocampus | A mythological creature with the front head and... |
| 2 | Late Latin | hippocampus | a seahorse |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | ἱππόκαμπος | monster with the body of a horse and the tail of... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | κάμπος | sea monster; plain |
| 5 | Latin | campus | Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field;... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂emp- | to bend; crooked; to bend, curve |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂em- | to bend, to curve |