Where does “creepypasta” come from?
creepypasta (Portuguese) comes from English creepypasta, from English copypasta, from English copy-paste, from English copy, from Middle English copy, from Old French copie, from Medieval Latin copia, from Latin cōpia — whale, sea monster; abyss.
creepypasta (Portuguese): creepypasta
Definitions
- creepypasta
Ancestry of “creepypasta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | creepypasta | Frightening urban legends and short stories in the horror genre, circulated on the Internet |
| 2 | English | copypasta | A block of text which has been copied and pasted... |
| 3 | English | copy-paste | The action of duplicating (text, an object, etc.) by copying it and later pasting somewhere else |
| 4 | English | copy | The result of copying; an identical duplicate of... |
| 5 | Middle English | copy | — |
| 6 | Old French | copie | abundance, plenty; transcript, copy |
| 7 | Medieval Latin | copia | reproduction, transcript; copy; supply |
| 8 | Latin | cōpia | supply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches |
| 9 | Latin | coopia | — |
| 10 | Latin | co- | allomorph of con- |
| 11 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 12 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 13 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 19 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 20 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |