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Where does “absurditet” come from?

absurditet (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from French absurdité, from Middle French absurdité, from Latin absurditas, from Latin absurdus, from Latin absonus, from Latin -sonus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

absurditet (Norwegian Bokmål): absurdity; an absurdity or absurdism; words,...

Definitions

  1. absurdity; an absurdity or absurdism; words,...

Ancestry of “absurditet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchabsurditéabsurdity; nonsense
2Middle Frenchabsurdité—
3Latinabsurditasdissonance, incongruity, absurdity
4Latinabsurdusdiscordant, harsh; incongruous, inconsistent,...
5Latinabsonusharsh, discordant; unsuitable, incongruous
6Latin-sonus—
7Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
8Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
9Proto-Italic-os—
10Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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