English
compascuity
Compascuity comes from Latin compāscuus ‘of or pertaining to common pasture’, from pāscō ‘to feed, nourish, maintain, support’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-1‘to protect, to ward’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂sti1‘to guard, to protect’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāskō1‘to feed’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscō1‘to feed, nourish, maintain, support’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscuus1‘of or for pasture’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompāscuus2‘of or pertaining to common pasture’
- Medieval Latinmoderncompāscuitās2
- Englishearliest quotation 1932compascuity2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin compascuus
- 2 Wiktionary, English compascuity
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1932, Elsé Haydon Carrier, Water and Grass: “In the sequel this theft cost the Dalai Lama…”.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-Wiktionary, Latin compascuus‘to protect, to ward’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂stiWiktionary, Latin compascuus‘to guard, to protect’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāskōWiktionary, Latin compascuus‘to feed’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscōWiktionary, Latin compascuus‘to feed, nourish, maintain, support’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscuusWiktionary, Latin compascuus‘of or for pasture’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompāscuusWiktionary, English compascuity‘of or pertaining to common pasture’
- Medieval LatinmoderncompāscuitāsWiktionary, English compascuity
- Englishearliest quotation 1932compascuityWiktionary, English compascuity. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1932, Elsé Haydon Carrier, Water and Grass: “In the sequel this theft cost the Dalai Lama…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’
food, father, pain, feed, pattern, pope, foster, apparent, fur, papa, penetration, companion, patriot, patron, fodder, perpetrator, accompany, fad, forage, paternal, ayr, padre, paternity, accompaniment, panini, patrician, perpetrate, patrimony, pater, pav, pantaloons, pannier, compere, 57 more
through Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti ‘to guard, to protect’
through Proto-Italic *pāskō ‘to feed’
through Latin pāscō ‘to feed, nourish, maintain, support’
Today it means
noun The shared right to graze animals on the same pasture.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “compascuity”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin compascuus. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- / compascuity