Where does “paravaginally” come from?
paravaginally (English) comes from English paravaginal, 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.
paravaginally (English): Adjacent to the wall of the vagina
Definitions
- Adjacent to the wall of the vagina
Ancestry of “paravaginally”, step by step
paravaginally traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English paravaginal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | paravaginal | Adjacent to the wall of the vagina |
| 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 |