Where does “sufficient” come from?
Sufficient comes from Old French sufisanz, from Latin sufficiens, the present participle of sufficio, meaning to provide or make enough, from facio meaning to make and suffixes derived from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning to place and under.
sufficient (English): Equal to the end proposed; adequate to what is...
Definitions
- Equal to the end proposed; adequate to what is...
Ancestry of “sufficient”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | sufisanz | — |
| 2 | Latin | sufficiēns | imbuing etc |
| 3 | Latin | sufficiō | to supply, provide, afford, give, fill, imbue, furnish, yield, produce |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |