Where does “paravisceral” come from?
paravisceral (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.
paravisceral (English): Beside the viscera
Definitions
- Beside the viscera
Ancestry of “paravisceral”, step by step
paravisceral 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 visceral
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | visceral | Of or relating to the viscera—internal organs of... |
| 2 | Middle French | viscéral | — |
| 3 | Latin | viscera | nominative plural of viscus; accusative plural of... |
| 4 | Latin | viscus | Any internal organ of the body; entrails, viscera |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | weys- | to raise, increase; to produce, procreate |