Where does “saucepanful” come from?
saucepanful (English) comes from English saucepan, from English PAN, from English pantograph, from French pantographe, from French -graphe, from Latin -graphus, from Ancient Greek -γράφος, from Ancient Greek γράφω — to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
saucepanful (English): Enough to fill a saucepan
Definitions
- Enough to fill a saucepan
Ancestry of “saucepanful”, step by step
saucepanful traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English saucepan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | saucepan | A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes... |
| 2 | English | PAN | Acronym of primary account number; Acronym of... |
| 3 | English | pantograph | A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms... |
| 4 | French | pantographe | pantograph |
| 5 | French | -graphe | -graph; -grapher |
| 6 | Latin | -graphus | graph |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -γράφος | writer, painter |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | γράφω | to scratch, cut into; to draw, sketch, paint; to... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | grəpʰō | to scratch, cut or carve into |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gerbʰ- | to carve |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |
via English ful
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ful | — |