Where does “immensité” come from?

immensité (French) comes from Latin immensitas, from Latin immēnsus, from Latin mēnsus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

immensité (French): immensity, vastness; scale

Definitions

  1. immensity, vastness; scale

Ancestry of “immensité”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinimmensitasimmensity, vastness; infinity
2Latinimmēnsusimmeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense
3Latinmēnsushaving measured, estimated
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mēnsus →
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