Where does “escaso” come from?
escaso (Spanish) comes from Vulgar Latin escarpsus, from Late Latin excarpsus, from Latin excarpere, from Latin excerpere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
escaso (Spanish): scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy,...
Definitions
- scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy,...
Ancestry of “escaso”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vulgar Latin | escarpsus | — |
| 2 | Late Latin | excarpsus | rare |
| 3 | Latin | excarpere | take out; pluck out |
| 4 | Latin | excerpere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |