Where does “priority” come from?
Priority comes from Old French priorite, derived from Latin prioritas, meaning the state of being first or having precedence.
priority (English): An item's relative importance; A goal of a person...
Definitions
- An item's relative importance; A goal of a person...
Ancestry of “priority”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | priorité | — |
| 2 | Latin | prioritas | precedence, previousness in time |
| 3 | Latin | prior | former, prior, previous; the first, the original;... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | priōs | former |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | prijōs | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |