Where does “credulidad” come from?
credulidad (Spanish) comes from Latin credulitas, from Latin crēdulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
credulidad (Spanish): gullibility
Definitions
- gullibility
Ancestry of “credulidad”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | credulitas | credulity, easiness of belief |
| 2 | Latin | crēdulus | that easily believes a thing, easy of belief |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |