English
sufficient
Sufficient comes from Latin sufficiēns ‘imbuing etc’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-‘to do’next step skipped: Latin sufficiō
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsufficiēns‘imbuing etc’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400sufisanz
- Englishearliest quotation 1668sufficient
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁-‘to do’next step skipped: Latin sufficiō
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsufficiēns‘imbuing etc’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400sufisanz
- Englishearliest quotation 1668sufficient
Earliest quotation: 1668, Samuel Pepys: “...to take the best ways we can, to make…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’
do, fact, deal, hot, fair, fan, fashion, feature, mid, defense, theme, benefit, custom, defence, ethnic, treasury, thesis, treasure, feast, theology, ethical, aesthetic, doom, deed, dis, defendant, synthetic, atheist, tick, auditorium, auditor, atheism, demi, ethic, deem, spade, ethos, forfeit, feral, familial, 130 more
Today it means
det An adequate quantity of; enough.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- / sufficient