Etymology

consumingness

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Today it means: The quality or characteristic of being consuming. Full definition →

English consuming ← Middle English consumen ← Old French consumer
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  7. Proto-Italic*supo
  8. Latinsub
  9. Latinsub-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₁em-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₁émeti
  12. Proto-Italic*emō
  13. Latinemō
  14. Latinsūmō
  15. Latincōnsūmō
  16. Old Frenchconsumer
  17. Middle Englishconsumen
  18. Englishconsuming
  19. English todayconsumingness

From consuming + -ness.

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