Where does “spissitude” come from?

spissitude (Middle English) comes from Latin spissitudo, from Latin spissus, from Proto-Indo-European spidtos.

Ancestry of “spissitude”, step by step

spissitude traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin spissitudo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinspissitudodensity, consistency, thickness
2Latinspissusthick, close, compact, dense, crowded; slow,...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanspidtos—

via Old French spissitude

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchspissitude—

Words derived from “spissitude”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European spidtos →Every word from Latin spissus →Every word from Latin spissitudo →