Where does “rate” come from?
rate (Haitian Creole) comes from French rareté, from Middle French rarité, from Latin rāritās, from Latin -tās, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂ts, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
rate (Haitian Creole): shortage, scarcity
Definitions
- shortage, scarcity
Ancestry of “rate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | rareté | rarity |
| 2 | Middle French | rarité | — |
| 3 | Latin | rāritās | looseness, thinness, the state of being loose, not dense |
| 4 | Latin | -tās | ty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |