Where does “cestui” come from?
cestui (Old French) comes from Vulgar Latin *ecce istūi, from Latin ecce, from Latin -ce, from Proto-Italic ke, from Indo-European *ḱe.
cestui (Old French): the person in question
Ancestry of “cestui”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vulgar Latin | *ecce istūi | — |
| 2 | Latin | ecce | see!, look!, behold!, points out something with... |
| 3 | Latin | -ce | affixed, usually to demonstratives, forming... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | ke | here |
| 5 | Indo-European | *ḱe | — |
Words derived from “cestui”