Where does “unnecessaries” come from?
unnecessaries (English) comes from English unnecessary, from English necessary, from Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius, from Latin necesse, from Latin cessus, from Latin cēdō.
unnecessaries (English): unnecessary or inessential things
Definitions
- unnecessary or inessential things
Ancestry of “unnecessaries”, step by step
unnecessaries traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English unnecessary
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unnecessary | Not needed or necessary; Done in addition to... |
| 2 | English | necessary | Required, essential, whether logically... |
| 3 | Middle English | necessarye | — |
| 4 | Old French | necessaire | — |
| 5 | Latin | necessārius | unavoidable, inevitable |
| 6 | Latin | necesse | unavoidable, "particularly" |
| 7 | Latin | cessus | conceded, given up, granted, surrendered,... |
| 8 | Latin | cēdō | to go, move, proceed, go along, move along |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kedō | give here! |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | ke | here |
| 11 | Indo-European | *ḱe | — |
via English S
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | S | The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this... |