Where does “kappa” come from?
kappa (German) comes from German Kapazität, from Latin capācitās, from Latin capāx, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
kappa (German): kappa
Definitions
- kappa
Ancestry of “kappa”, step by step
kappa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Kapazität
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kapazität | capacity |
| 2 | Latin | capācitās | capability; capacity |
| 3 | Latin | capāx | That can contain or hold much; wide, large, spacious, capacious, roomy |
| 4 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 5 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 6 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |