Where does “parameric” come from?
parameric (English) comes from English paramere, from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar — to succeed, to prosper.
parameric (English): Relating to a paramere
Ancestry of “parameric”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | paramere | One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the... |
| 2 | English | Pará | — |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 4 | Portuguese | Pera | — |
| 5 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 6 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 8 | Old Spanish | esperar | — |
| 9 | Latin | spērō | — |
| 10 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |