Where does “paresseusement” come from?
paresseusement (French) comes from French paresseux, from French paresse, from Old French peresce, from Latin pigritia, from Latin -itia, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
paresseusement (French): lazily; sluggishly
Ancestry of “paresseusement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | paresseux | lazy; lazy person; slacker; a sloth |
| 2 | French | paresse | laziness; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Old French | peresce | laziness |
| 4 | Latin | pigritia | sloth, sluggishness, laziness, indolence |
| 5 | Latin | -itia | -ness, -ity |
| 6 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |