Where does “paratextuality” come from?
paratextuality (English) comes from English paratextual, 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.
paratextuality (English): The quality of being paratextual
Definitions
- The quality of being paratextual
Ancestry of “paratextuality”, step by step
paratextuality traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English paratextual
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | paratextual | Relating to a paratext |
| 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 |