Where does “specific” come from?
specific (Romanian) comes from French spécifique, from Latin specificus, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
specific (Romanian): specific
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Ancestry of “specific”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | spécifique | specific; a specific, a remedy for a particular... |
| 2 | Latin | specificus | specific, particular |
| 3 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 4 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |