Where does “fatuitate” come from?
fatuitate (Romanian) comes from French fatuité, from Latin fatuitas, from Latin fatuus, from Latin fātus, from Latin for, from Proto-Italic fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂ti — to speak, to be talking.
fatuitate (Romanian): fatuity
Definitions
- fatuity
Ancestry of “fatuitate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fatuité | self-satisfaction, complacency |
| 2 | Latin | fatuitas | foolishness, folly, silliness |
| 3 | Latin | fatuus | foolish, silly, simple; stupid; insipid,... |
| 4 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 5 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |