Where does “truthlessness” come from?
truthlessness (English) comes from English truthless, from English truth, from Middle English troute, from Old English truht, from Old French truite, from Latin tructa, from Ancient Greek τρώκτης, from Ancient Greek -τής — passed , crossed.
truthlessness (English): The state of being truthless, untruthfulness
Definitions
- The state of being truthless, untruthfulness
Ancestry of “truthlessness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | truthless | Lacking truth, untruthful |
| 2 | English | truth | True facts, genuine depiction or statements of... |
| 3 | Middle English | troute | — |
| 4 | Old English | truht | trout |
| 5 | Old French | truite | — |
| 6 | Latin | tructa | a kind of trout |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τρώκτης | gnawer, nibbler; greedy knave; kind of fish with... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -τής | Appended to verbs to form agent nouns |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | πεῖρα | trial, experiment, attempt |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |