Where does “verbosité” come from?
verbosité (French) comes from Middle French verbosité, from Latin verbositas, from Latin verbosus, from Latin verbum, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
verbosité (French): verbosity
Definitions
- verbosity
Ancestry of “verbosité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | verbosité | — |
| 2 | Latin | verbositas | verbosity, wordiness |
| 3 | Latin | verbosus | wordy, verbose, prolix |
| 4 | Latin | verbum | word; proverb, saying; verb |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |