Where does “disposition” come from?
disposition (Old French) comes from Latin dispositiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis-, from Latin calceus, from Latin calx — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
disposition (Old French): arrangement; layout
Definitions
- arrangement; layout
Ancestry of “disposition”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | dispositiō | a regular disposition, arrangement; management, direction |
| 2 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 3 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 4 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 5 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 7 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 8 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “disposition”
- disposition
- predisposition
- predispose
- dispositional
- dispositionally
- dispositionalist
- dispositionalism
- redisposition
- disposition
- disposicioun
- undisposicioun
- misdisposition
- counterdisposition
- maldisposition
- predispositional
- counterdispositional
- predyspozycja
- psychodispositional
- predispoziție
- predispositionally
- predyspozycyjny