Where does “sarkasmo” come from?

sarkasmo (Esperanto) comes from Spanish sarcasmo, from Late Latin sarcasmus, from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός, from Ancient Greek -μός, from Proto-Indo-European -mós — Creates action/result nouns from verb stems.

sarkasmo (Esperanto): a sarcastic remark or joke, an act of sarcasm

Definitions

  1. a sarcastic remark or joke, an act of sarcasm

Ancestry of “sarkasmo”, step by step

sarkasmo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish sarcasmo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishsarcasmosarcasm; snark
2Late Latinsarcasmussarcasm
3Ancient Greekσαρκασμόςbitter irony; sarcasm
4Ancient Greek-μόςForms abstract nouns
5Proto-Indo-European-mósCreates action/result nouns from verb stems

via Latin sarcasmus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsarcasmussarcasm

Words derived from “sarkasmo”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mós →Every word from Ancient Greek -μός →Every word from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός →