Where does “parasphenoidal” come from?
parasphenoidal (English) comes from English parasphenoid, 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.
parasphenoidal (English): Relating to the parasphenoid
Definitions
- Relating to the parasphenoid
Ancestry of “parasphenoidal”, step by step
parasphenoidal traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English parasphenoid
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | parasphenoid | A bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid... |
| 2 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 4 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 5 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 6 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 8 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 9 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 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 |