Where does “Bespaßung” come from?
Bespaßung (German) comes from German bespaßen, from German spaßen, from German Spaß, from German Spasso, from Italian spasso, from Vulgar Latin expassare, from Latin expandō, from Latin pandō — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Bespaßung (German): entertainment
Definitions
- entertainment
Ancestry of “Bespaßung”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | bespaßen | to entertain, to keep entertained typically of children or those regarded as similarly demanding |
| 2 | German | spaßen | to joke; to jest; to frolic |
| 3 | German | Spaß | fun; joke |
| 4 | German | Spasso | — |
| 5 | Italian | spasso | fun; leisure; walk |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | expassare | — |
| 7 | Latin | expandō | to spread something out |
| 8 | Latin | pandō | to spread or open (out), extend |
| 9 | Latin | pandus | bend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked |
| 10 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 11 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |