myEtymology.com: English etymology of compassed

Etymology of the English word compassed

the English word compassed

derived from the English word compass

derived from the Old French word compas

derived from the Old French word compasser

derived from the Vulgar Latin root *compassare

derived from the Late Latin word passus (spread out; outstretched; dried; step, pace)

derived from the Latin word pati (suffer; allow; undergo)

derived from the Latin word pandere (spread out [passis manibus => with hands outstretched])

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *petə-

using the Latin prefix com-

derived from the Latin word cum (with)

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kom (near, with, together)