Where does “paraspinal” come from?
Paraspinal comes from English parachute and Latin -alis, combined with Latin parare meaning to prepare and Latin cadere meaning to fall.
paraspinal (English): adjacent to the spine
Definitions
- adjacent to the spine
Ancestry of “paraspinal”, step by step
paraspinal traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via English spinal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | spinal | Of or relating to the spine; Having a pithed... |
| 2 | Latin | spīnālis | of or belonging to the spine; spinal |
| 3 | Latin | spīna | a thorn or a thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | speinā | thorn |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | spēy- | to stretch; thrive; succeed |