English
overaccommodation
Overaccommodation comes from French accommodation, and goes back to Latin accommodātiōnem.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccommodātiōnem
- Frenchc. 1600–presentaccommodation
- English1500–presentsame form
- Englishtodayoveraccommodation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccommodātiōnem
- Frenchc. 1600–presentaccommodation
- English1500–presentsame form
- Englishtodayoveraccommodation
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 accommodātiōnem
Today it means
noun excessive convergence; the situation where a speaker is overaccommodative
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin accommodātiōnem / overaccommodation