Where does “parapapillary” come from?

parapapillary (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.

parapapillary (English): Relating to a papilla and surrounding region

Definitions

  1. Relating to a papilla and surrounding region

Ancestry of “parapapillary”, step by step

parapapillary traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Pará

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishParáA former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions
2PortugueseParáa state in the North Region of Brazil
3PortuguesePerapear
4Portugueseesperawait
5Portugueseesperarto wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate
6Old Portugueseasperar
7Old Spanishesperarto wait for, await
8Latinspērōto hope, expect
9Latinspeshope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension
10Proto-Italicspēshope
11Proto-Indo-Europeanspéh₁sprosperity, success
12Proto-Indo-Europeanspeh₁-to succeed, to prosper

via English papillary

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpapillaryHaving the properties or appearance of a papilla
2English-aryof or pertaining to; adjective suffix appended to...
3Italian-ario-ary; Added to nouns to create attributive...
4Latin-āriumused primarily to form nouns of purpose from other nouns, such as places where things are kept or objects used for a particular end
5Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
6Proto-Italic*-om
7Proto-Indo-European*-oHom
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speh₁-