Where does “esquecimento” come from?
esquecimento (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese esquecer, from Old Portuguese escaecer, from Vulgar Latin excadesco, from Latin excadeo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
esquecimento (Portuguese): forgetfulness; oblivion
Ancestry of “esquecimento”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Portuguese | esquecer | to forget |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | escaecer | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | excadesco | I fall away |
| 4 | Latin | excadeo | I decrease, fall away, diminish |
| 5 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 6 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 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 |