Where does “prepare” come from?
Prepare comes from Middle French preparer, from Latin praeparo, ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root per- meaning to produce or bring forth.
prepare (English): To make ready for a specific future purpose; to...
Definitions
- To make ready for a specific future purpose; to...
Ancestry of “prepare”, step by step
prepare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English preparation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | preparation | The act of preparing or getting ready; The state... |
| 2 | Middle French | préparation | — |
| 3 | Latin | praeparatio | preparation |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Middle French preparer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | preparer | to prepare |
| 2 | Latin | praeparāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | parāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | parō | to arrange, order, contrive, design |
| 5 | Latin | pectus | chest, breast; heart, breast, as the seat of... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | pektos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | peg- | breast |
| 8 | English | polyethylene glycol | Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of... |