Where does “voracity” come from?
Voracity comes from French voracité, from Latin voracitas meaning greediness, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European -it- suffix forming abstract nouns.
voracity (English): the state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme...
Definitions
- the state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme...
Ancestry of “voracity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | voracité | — |
| 2 | Latin | voracitas | greediness, ravenousness, voracity |
| 3 | Latin | vorāx | voracious, gluttonous |
| 4 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 5 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 6 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |