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Where does “difisil” come from?

difisil (Haitian Creole) comes from French difficile, from Middle French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from Latin facilis, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.

difisil (Haitian Creole): difficult

Definitions

  1. difficult

Ancestry of “difisil”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdifficiledifficult; choosy, fussy, picky
2Middle Frenchdifficiledifficult
3Latindifficilisdifficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate,...
4Latinfacilisthat may or can be done or made; easy, facile
5Latinfaciō—
6Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
7Latin-tōrius—
8Latin-tor-er
9Proto-Italic-tōr—
10Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
11Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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