Where does “deficiente” come from?
deficiente (Portuguese) comes from Latin dēficiens, from Latin deficere, from Latin defectus, from Latin deficio, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
deficiente (Portuguese): handicapped; deficient; disabled or handicapped...
Definitions
- handicapped; deficient; disabled or handicapped...
Ancestry of “deficiente”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | dēficiens | failing, disappointing |
| 2 | Latin | deficere | present active infinitive of dēficiō;... |
| 3 | Latin | defectus | failure; absence; weakness, failing, defect |
| 4 | Latin | deficio | I withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,... |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |