Where does “espandre” come from?
espandre (Middle French) comes from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere, from Latin expando, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — resin.
espandre (Middle French): to spread out; to expand
Ancestry of “espandre”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | espandre | to spread out; to blossom; to destroy, to... |
| 2 | Latin | expandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 3 | Latin | expando | I spread out; I expand; I explain |
| 4 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 5 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | — |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |