Where does “parataxon” come from?
parataxon (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.
parataxon (English): An artificial taxon used to describe a fossil...
Definitions
- An artificial taxon used to describe a fossil...
Ancestry of “parataxon”, step by step
parataxon 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 taxon
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | taxon | A group of one or more populations of an organism... |
| 2 | English | taxonomy | The science or the technique used to make a... |
| 3 | French | taxonomie | Alternative form of taxinomie |
| 4 | French | -nomie | -nomy |
| 5 | Latin | -nomia | -nomy |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ῐ́ᾱ | {{l|en|-ia}}; "suffix forming abstract feminine... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |