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