Where does “sortance” come from?
sortance (English) comes from English sort, from Middle English sort, from Old French sorte, from Italian sorta, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
sortance (English): fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness
Definitions
- fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness
Ancestry of “sortance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | sort | A general type; Manner; form of being or acting;... |
| 2 | Middle English | sort | — |
| 3 | Old French | sorte | sort; type |
| 4 | Italian | sorta | sort, type, kind; feminine singular past... |
| 5 | Latin | sors | anything used to determine chances, lot; a... |
| 6 | Latin | legere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | legō | — |
| 8 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |