Where does “prokrasto” come from?
prokrasto (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto prokrasti, from Latin prōcrāstinō, from Latin prō, from Latin ratus, from Latin rēōr, from Proto-Italic rēōr, from Proto-Indo-European h₂reh₁-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂er- — to fit, to fix, to put together.
prokrasto (Esperanto): a postponement, delay; stay of execution
Definitions
- a postponement, delay; stay of execution
Ancestry of “prokrasto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | prokrasti | to delay, put off |
| 2 | Latin | prōcrāstinō | to put off until tomorrow; to defer, delay, procrastinate |
| 3 | Latin | prō | for |
| 4 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 5 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |