Where does “unsufficiently” come from?
unsufficiently (English) comes from English unsufficient, from English sufficient, from Old French sufisanz, from Latin sufficiēns, from Latin sufficiō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius.
Ancestry of “unsufficiently”, step by step
unsufficiently traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English unsufficient
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unsufficient | Not sufficient |
| 2 | English | sufficient | Equal to the end proposed; adequate to what is... |
| 3 | Old French | sufisanz | — |
| 4 | Latin | sufficiēns | imbuing etc |
| 5 | Latin | sufficiō | to supply, provide, afford, give, fill, imbue, furnish, yield, produce |
| 6 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 7 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 8 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 9 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |