Where does “expense” come from?
expense (Middle English) comes from Old French espense, from Late Latin expensa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
Ancestry of “expense”, step by step
expense traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French espense
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | espense | — |
| 2 | Late Latin | expensa | nominative feminine singular of expēnsus;... |
| 3 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 4 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 6 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 7 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
via Anglo-Norman expense
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anglo-Norman | expense | — |