Etymograph

English

improvisatory

By surface analysis, improvise + -atory.

Equivalent to improvise + -atory

Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ‘to see’

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Latin vīsus ‘having been seen’

Latin prōvīsus ‘foreseen’

Latin improvisus ‘unforeseen, unexpected’

French improviser ‘to improvise’

English improvise

Today it means

adj Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of improvisation.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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