Where does “sufficientarian” come from?
sufficientarian (English) comes from English sufficient, from Old French sufisanz, from Latin sufficiēns, from Latin sufficiō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
sufficientarian (English): One who believes that justice involves everybody having sufficient resources for their needs, rather than the overall situation being as good as possible
Definitions
- One who believes that justice involves everybody having sufficient resources for their needs, rather than the overall situation being as good as possible
Ancestry of “sufficientarian”, step by step
sufficientarian traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English sufficient
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sufficient | Equal to the end proposed; adequate to what is... |
| 2 | Old French | sufisanz | — |
| 3 | Latin | sufficiēns | imbuing etc |
| 4 | Latin | sufficiō | to supply, provide, afford, give, fill, imbue, furnish, yield, produce |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |