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
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	to impart, share
9	Latin	commūnis	common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together
10	Old Latin	com(m)oinis	—
11	Proto-Italic	kommoinis	common
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

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