Where does “pastureland” come from?
Pastureland comes from English land and English pandemic, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning to spread and to extend.
pastureland (English): land used for grazing animals
Definitions
- land used for grazing animals
Ancestry of “pastureland”, step by step
pastureland traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pasture
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pasture | Land, specifically, an open field, on which... |
| 2 | Middle English | pasture | — |
| 3 | Old French | pasture | pasture grassy field upon which cattle graze |
| 4 | Latin | pastūra | pasture, grazing ground |
| 5 | Latin | pāstus | having eaten, consumed |
| 6 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |