Where does “parastatistics” come from?
parastatistics (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.
parastatistics (English): Any of several proposed statistics that are...
Definitions
- Any of several proposed statistics that are...
Ancestry of “parastatistics”, step by step
parastatistics 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 statistics
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | statistics | A discipline, principally within applied... |
| 2 | German | Statistik | statistics; statistics, stats |
| 3 | Italian | statistica | feminine singular of statistico; statistics |
| 4 | Italian | -istica | feminine singular of -istico; -istics |
| 5 | Italian | -istico | -istic, -istical |
| 6 | Italian | -ista | -ist |
| 7 | Latin | -ista | -ist; one who practises or believes |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -ιστής | Alternative form of -τής; -ist |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -τής | Appended to verbs to form agent nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | -tās | — |