Where does “escassez” come from?
escassez (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese escasso, from Old Portuguese escasso, from Latin excarsus, from Late Latin excarpsus, from Latin excarpere, from Latin excerpere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
escassez (Portuguese): scarcity, dearth, shortage
Definitions
- scarcity, dearth, shortage
Ancestry of “escassez”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Portuguese | escasso | scarce, rare; sparse, scanty |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | escasso | — |
| 3 | Latin | excarsus | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | excarpsus | rare |
| 5 | Latin | excarpere | take out; pluck out |
| 6 | Latin | excerpere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |