Etymograph

English

suasory

Suasory comes from Latin suasorius ‘suasory, persuasive, pertaining to counsel or…’, from suasor ‘adviser, advocate, supporter’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *swādejō.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*swādejō1reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuādeō2‘to recommend, advise’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuasor3‘adviser, advocate, supporter’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuasorius3‘suasory, persuasive, pertaining to counsel or persuasion’
  5. Englishtodaysuasory3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin suadeo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin suasor
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English suasory

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*swādejōWiktionary, Latin suadeoreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuādeōWiktionary, Latin suasor‘to recommend, advise’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuasorWiktionary, English suasory‘adviser, advocate, supporter’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuasoriusWiktionary, English suasory‘suasory, persuasive, pertaining to counsel or persuasion’
  5. EnglishtodaysuasoryWiktionary, English suasory

Linked words

through Latin suādeō ‘to recommend, advise’

persuade, persuasion, 5 more

Today it means

adj Tending to persuade; persuasive.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “suasory”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin suadeo, Latin suasor. 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-Italic *swādejō / suasory

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