Where does “curiosité” come from?
curiosité (French) comes from Latin curiositas, from German kurios, from Latin curiosus, from Latin -osus, from Old Latin -osos, from Latin ont-to-s, from Latin -o-wont-to-s.
curiosité (French): curiosity; oddity, curious fact
Definitions
- curiosity; oddity, curious fact
Ancestry of “curiosité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | curiositas | curiosity, inquisitiveness |
| 2 | German | kurios | curious, odd, bizarre |
| 3 | Latin | curiosus | Careful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted;... |
| 4 | Latin | -osus | -ose, -ous; full of, overly, prone to |
| 5 | Old Latin | -osos | accusative masculine plural of -ōsus |
| 6 | Latin | ont-to-s | — |
| 7 | Latin | -o-wont-to-s | — |