English
accommodative
Accommodative comes from Latin accommodātus ‘fit, suitable, appropriate’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccommodātus‘fit, suitable, appropriate’
- English1500–presentaccommodate
- Englishearliest quotation 2021accommodative
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccommodātus‘fit, suitable, appropriate’
- English1500–presentaccommodate
- Englishearliest quotation 2021accommodative
Earliest quotation: 2021, Jón Steinsson, Online Panel: A New Macroeconomics?: “This fact points in a similar direction as the…”
A compound of com- + commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful,…’ + commodum + commodō ‘to lend or hire’ + accommodō
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
Latin modus ‘measure’
Latin commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
Latin modus ‘measure’
Latin commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming’
Latin commodum
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
Latin modus ‘measure’
Latin commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming’
Latin commodum
Latin commodō ‘to lend or hire’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
Latin modus ‘measure’
Latin commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming’
Latin commodum
Latin commodō ‘to lend or hire’
Latin accommodō
Every English word from Latin accommodātus
Today it means
adj Supplying with or obliging; accommodating.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin accommodātus / accommodative