Where does “pleonástico” come from?
pleonástico (Portuguese) comes from French pléonastique, from French pléonasme, from Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός, from Ancient Greek πλεονάζω, from Ancient Greek πλείων, from Proto-Hellenic *pleíhōn, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₁yōs — full.
pleonástico (Portuguese): pleonastic
Definitions
- pleonastic
Ancestry of “pleonástico”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | pléonastique | pleonastic |
| 2 | French | pléonasme | pleonasm, redundancy |
| 3 | Latin | pleonasmus | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πλεονασμός | abundance; excess |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πλεονάζω | to presume on; to be superfluous, more than... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πλείων | more, comparative degree of πολύς; more; more,... |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | *pleíhōn | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *pléh₁yōs | full |