Where does “parapatellar” come from?

parapatellar (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.

parapatellar (English): Located next to the patella

Definitions

  1. Located next to the patella

Ancestry of “parapatellar”, step by step

parapatellar 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 patellar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpatellarnear or relating to the patella or kneecap
2EnglishpatellaThe sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap; A...
3Italianpatellapatella, kneecap, rotula; limpet
4Latinpatellaa small or shallow pan or dish; the kneecap,...
5LatinpatīnaA broad, shallow dish, a pan, stewpan
6Ancient Greekπατάνηkind of flat dish
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpet-ano
8Proto-Indo-Europeanpete-to spread, stretch out
9Proto-Finnicete-
10Serbo-Croatiantẹ́of you
11Proto-Slavictainflection of *tъ: ## feminine singular ##...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speh₁-