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-ecer Inchoative verb-forming suffix. A suffix indicating the production or becoming of a process. A merger of various endings in Latin, -escere, -iscere, and -ascere 'id.,' all of which come from a single inchoative suffix in Latin, -sc-. The inchoative suffix was more common in Classical Latin than in Proto-Romance, where its meaning waned as speakers increasingly saw it as simply another "stem-extender" on some verbs (see Manea 1971; Rudes 2011). From Proto-Italic *-sk-e/o- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *-sḱ-e/o- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Asturian -ecer, Portuguese -ecer, -escer, Catalan -eix, French -is, Italian -isco, Aromanian -esc, Romanian -esc Italic Umbrian -sk- Celtic Old Irish -c Germanic Gothic *-h- (in fraihnen) Balto-Slavic Lithuanian *-šý- (in prašýti), Old Church Slavonic *-si- (in prositi) Indo-Iranian Sanskrit *-ch- (in pr̥chā́mi "to ask"), Avestan *-sa (in pərəsa "to ask") "The productive descendants of [Proto-Indo-European *-sḱ-é/ó-] differ in meaning from branch to branch. In Anatolian, the suffix indicates repeated, habitual, or background action, or action applied to more than one object... The habitual or durative sense is also found in Homeric Greek... Other Latin verbs with the suffix, however, are inchoatives (indicating the beginning or inception of an action or state)... Several verbs having the suffix that are reconstructible for PIE refer to asking or wishing, indicating perhaps that the suffix also once had a desiderative function." ~ B. Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture (2011) de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Fortson, B. W. IV. Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons. 2011. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
echar (Verb) "to throw" 12th cent. From Vulgar Latin *iectare 'id.' From Latin iactare "to hurl," from iacere "to throw" and frequentive suffix -tare (see note under faltar). From Proto-Italic *jak-i- 'id.' From late Proto-Indo-European word *(H)i̯h₁-k-i̯- 'id.,' a formation from an originally aorist verb *Hi̯h₁- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Asturian echar, French jeter, Italian gettare, Sardinian ghetare Hellenic Ancient Greek ἵημι (híemi) "to release," Mycenaean i-je-si 'id.' Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
-eco Suffix indicating deformity and perversion. From Nahuatl -ic 'id.' Highly endemic to Central America dialects located in Nahuatl's historic linguistic territory. Not related to the diminutive suffix -eco, which is from Latin -icus. Karttunen, F. E. An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl. University of Oklahoma Press. 1983. Wagner, M. L. "El sufijo hispanoamericano '-eco' para denotar defectos físicos y morales". Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica. Año 4, No. 2. 1950.
edad f. (Noun) "age" 12th cent. From Latin ætas 'id.' From Old Latin aivom "time" (see evo) with noun-forming suffix -tas (see -dad). Indo-European Romance Asturian edá, Portuguese idade, Galician idade, Catalan edat, Italian età, Romanian etate Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
-edad, -idad Noun-forming suffix indicating a state of being. From Latin -itatem, accusative of -itas 'id.' From Proto-Italic *-i-tāts, an i-stem with suffix *-tāts (see -dad). de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
edición f. (Noun) "edition" 16th cent. From Medieval Latin editionem, accusative of editio "publication." From Latin edere "to publish," but originally meaning "to produce." The word edere is composed of two parts. The first part, e-, is from the prefix ex- "out" (see ex-). The second, -dere, is a relict of the Proto-Indo-European root *d^heh₁- "to put." Normally *d^h- became f- in Latin, but the presence of the prefix e- prevented the change from happening. Cf. hacer, which came from *d^heh₁- without the prefix. Indo-European Romance Portuguese edição, French édition, Italian edizione, Romanian ediție Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
edificar (Verb) "to build" 13th cent. From Latin ædificare 'id.' from ædes "building" and facere "to make" (see hacer). Latin ædes is from Proto-Italic *aiþ- "hearth." From Proto-Indo-European *h₂i̯d^h- "to burn." Indo-European Romance Portuguese edificar, French édifier, Italian edificare Italic Oscan aídíl, Faliscan efiles, Volscan aidiles Celtic Old Irish áed "fire," Welsh aidd "ardor," Middle Breton oaz "jealousy" Germanic Old High German eit "pyre," Old English ād 'id.' Hellenic Ancient Greek αἴθειν (aít^hein) "to burn" Indo-Iranian Sanskrit édha- "firewood," -idh- "igniting" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
edificio m. (Noun) "building" 13th cent. From Latin ædificium 'id.,' from ædificare "to build" (see edificar). Indo-European Romance Portuguese edifício, Catalan edifici, French édifice, Italian edificio, Romanian edificiu Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
editar (Verb) "to edit" 19th cent. Borrowed from French éditer 'id.' From Latin editus "published," from the verb edere "to publish" (see edición). Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
eeuu m. (Noun) "United States" An abbreviation of estados unidos. The double letters indicate each respective word is plural. See estado and unir. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.