Where does “NP-difficile” come from?

NP-difficile (French) comes from French difficile, from Middle French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from Latin facilis, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.

NP-difficile (French): NP-hard

Definitions

  1. NP-hard

Ancestry of “NP-difficile”, step by step

NP-difficile traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French difficile

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdifficiledifficult; choosy, fussy, picky
2Middle Frenchdifficiledifficult
3Latindifficilisdifficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate,...
4Latinfacilisthat may or can be done or made; easy, facile
5Latinfaciōto do
6Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
7Latin-tōriusory
8Latin-tor-er
9Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
10Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
11Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via French NP

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchNP
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s