Where does “puritanical” come from?
Puritanical comes from English puritan with the suffix -ical, which derives from French -ique, Latin -icus, and Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix.
puritanical (English): Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their...
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their...
Ancestry of “puritanical”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | puritanic | Archaic form of puritanical |
| 2 | English | Puritan | A member of a particular Protestant religious... |
| 3 | English | purity | The state or degree of being pure |
| 4 | English | pure | Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied; Free... |
| 5 | Middle English | pure | pure, unadulterated, undiluted, untarnished;... |
| 6 | Old French | pur | pure; Alternative form of por |
| 7 | Old French | autre | Alternative form of altre; other |
| 8 | Old French | vie | life |
| 9 | Old French | viḍe | — |
| 10 | Latin | vitam | accusative singular of vīta |
| 11 | Latin | vīta | life |
| 12 | Latin | vīvō | to live |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | gʷīwō | live, be alive |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷíh₃weti | to live, to be alive |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷih₃wós | alive, living |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷeih₃w- | to live |