Where does “undersufficient” come from?
undersufficient (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.
Ancestry of “undersufficient”, step by step
undersufficient 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 | — |