Where does “desventajado” come from?

desventajado (Spanish) comes from Spanish desventajar, from Spanish desventaja, from Spanish ventaja, from French avantage, from Old French avantage, from Old French avant, from Latin ab ante, from Latin ante — Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots.

desventajado (Spanish): disadvantaged

Definitions

  1. disadvantaged

Ancestry of “desventajado”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishdesventajarto put at a disadvantage
2Spanishdesventajadisadvantage, drawback, downside, weakness
3Spanishventajaadvantage, upper hand, edge; benefit; head start
4Frenchavantageadvantage
5Old Frenchavantageadvantage; profit; gain
6Old Frenchavantbeforehand; earlier
7Latinab antein front, before
8Latinantebefore, in front, forwards; before; before,...
9Ancient Greekκλίσιςbending, inclination; a lying down; a place for...
10Ancient Greek-σῐς"suffix forming nouns"
11Ancient Greek-τιςretained after dentals
12Proto-Indo-European-tisDerives abstract/action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tisEvery word from Ancient Greek -σῐςEvery word from Ancient Greek κλίσις
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