Where does “parascholarship” come from?

parascholarship (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.

parascholarship (English): that is carried out outside the academic mainstream

Definitions

  1. that is carried out outside the academic mainstream

Ancestry of “parascholarship”, step by step

parascholarship 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 scholarship

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishscholarshipA grant-in-aid to a student; The character or...
2EnglishscholarA student; one who studies at school or college,...
3Middle Englishscolar
4Old Englishscōlerescholar, learner
5Latinscholārisscholar, student
6LatinscholaLeisure time given to learning; schooltime,...
7Ancient Greekσχολήleisure, free time; rest; that in which leisure...
8Proto-Hellenicskʰolā́
9Proto-Indo-Europeansǵʰ-h₃-léh₂
10Proto-Indo-Europeanseǵʰ-to hold; to overpower
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speh₁-