Where does “precocity” come from?
Precocity comes from French précocité, derived from Latin praecoquere meaning "to ripen early," composed of prae "before" and coquus "cook."
precocity (English): The state of being precocious
Definitions
- The state of being precocious
Ancestry of “precocity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | précocité | the state of being ahead of time, earliness |
| 2 | French | précoce | early; premature, precocious |
| 3 | Latin | praecox | ripe before its time; premature; precocious;... |
| 4 | Latin | praecoquō | — |
| 5 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 6 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 7 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 8 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 9 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | kukaz | cook |
| 12 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 13 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 14 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |