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Where does “tastefully” come from?

Tastefully derives from English tasteful, combining English taste with the suffix English -ful, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- meaning to fill or be full.

tastefully (English): In a tasteful manner

Definitions

  1. In a tasteful manner

Ancestry of “tastefully”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtastefulHaving or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically...
2EnglishtasteOne of the sensations produced by the tongue in...
3Middle EnglishtastenTo taste; To partake in or ingest; To examine by...
4Old Frenchtasterto taste; to touch; to hit; to strike
5Vulgar Latintastareto touch, feel; present active infinitive of...
6Latintaxāre—
7LatinTaxusyew
8Ancient GreekεἶδοςThat which is seen: form, image, shape;...
9Spanish-scopio-scope
10Latin-scopium—
11Ancient GreekσκοπέωI look, look at, behold; I examine, inspect; 413...
12Ancient Greekσκοπόςwatcher, lookout; protector, guardian; spy, scout
13Ancient GreekσκέπτομαιI look at, examine; I examine, consider, think
14Proto-Hellenicsképťomaito look at
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