Where does “diffiċilment” come from?
diffiċilment (Maltese) comes from Italian difficilmente, from Italian difficile, from Latin difficilis, from Latin facilis, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
diffiċilment (Maltese): with difficulty
Definitions
- with difficulty
Ancestry of “diffiċilment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | difficilmente | hardly, with difficulty, unlikely (adjective) |
| 2 | Italian | difficile | difficult, hard; person who is intractable or... |
| 3 | Latin | difficilis | difficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate,... |
| 4 | Latin | facilis | that may or can be done or made; easy, facile |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |