Where does “spesenfrei” come from?
spesenfrei (German) comes from German Spesen, from Italian spese, from Latin expēnsa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e.
spesenfrei (German): free of charge
Definitions
- free of charge
Ancestry of “spesenfrei”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Spesen | charges, costs and expenses incurred in the... |
| 2 | Italian | spese | feminine plural of speso; plural of spesa;... |
| 3 | Latin | expēnsa | — |
| 4 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 5 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 7 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 8 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |