Where does “unceremonious” come from?

Unceremonious comes from English ceremonious, from Middle French cérémonieux, from Latin caerimoniosus, from Latin caerimonia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning "not" and "being."

unceremonious (English): Not ceremonious

Definitions

  1. Not ceremonious

Ancestry of “unceremonious”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishUn-not
2Middle Englishun-—
3Old Englishun-negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms...
4Proto-West Germanicun-not, un-
5Proto-Germanicun-not, un-
6Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
7Proto-Indo-Europeannenot

Words derived from “unceremonious”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ne →Every word from English Un- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European n̥- →