spontaneous, self-generated (happening without any apparent external cause) · spontaneous, natural, unforced
köken: Learned borrowing from Late Latin spontāneus. In modern French, only words descending from Latin borrowings of Greek origin ending in the suffixes -ēus/-ēum, -aeus/-aeum (and exceptionally -ius/-ium, as in élysée/Élysée) are written with -ée in the masculine. Words descending from Latin words in -āneus (a different suffix, from -ānus + -eus), are now written with the ending -ané (as seen, for…
spontaneously, voluntarily (self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause) · spontaneously (arising from a momentary impulse)
köken: Etymology tree Late Latin sponte Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Late Latin -nus Late Latin -ānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Late Latin -eus Late Latin -āneus Late Latin spontāneusbor. Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Old Polish -ny Polish -ny Polish spontaniczny Proto-Slavic…