Where does “imensidão” come from?
imensidão (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese imenso, from Latin immēnsus, from Latin mēnsus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
imensidão (Portuguese): vastness; infinity (something of immeasurable size or greatness)
Definitions
- vastness; infinity (something of immeasurable size or greatness)
Ancestry of “imensidão”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | imenso | immense; immensely, very much |
| 2 | Latin | immēnsus | immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense |
| 3 | Latin | mēnsus | having measured, estimated |
| 4 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |