Where does “difikilte” come from?
difikilte (Haitian Creole) comes from French difficulté, from Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from Latin difficilis, from Latin facilis, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
difikilte (Haitian Creole): difficulty
Ancestry of “difikilte”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | difficulté | difficulty |
| 2 | Middle French | difficulté | difficulty |
| 3 | Old French | difficulté | difficulty |
| 4 | Latin | difficultas | difficulty, distress, trouble, hardship |
| 5 | Latin | difficilis | difficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate,... |
| 6 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |