Where does “paratrochlear” come from?

paratrochlear (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.

paratrochlear (English): Across or through the trochlea

Definitions

  1. Across or through the trochlea

Ancestry of “paratrochlear”, step by step

paratrochlear traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Pará

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishParáA former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions
2PortugueseParáa state in the North Region of Brazil
3PortuguesePerapear
4Portugueseesperawait
5Portugueseesperarto wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate
6Old Portugueseasperar
7Old Spanishesperarto wait for, await
8Latinspērōto hope, expect
9Latinspeshope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension
10Proto-Italicspēshope
11Proto-Indo-Europeanspéh₁sprosperity, success
12Proto-Indo-Europeanspeh₁-to succeed, to prosper

via English trochlear

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtrochlearShaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to,...
2EnglishtrochleaA structure resembling a pulley
3Latintrochleapulley; block and tackle
4Ancient Greekτροχιλείαblock and tackle, system of several pulleys
5Ancient Greek-είᾱSuperficially appears in abstract nouns derived from σ-stem adjectives, with the true suffix being
6Ancient Greek-ήςadjective suffix
7Proto-Indo-European-ēsPrimarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds
8Proto-Indo-European-ess
9Proto-Indo-European-osCreates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speh₁-