Sufficient
/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/noun
Enough for a particular purpose or need.
Did you know?Its Latin ancestor, *sufficere*, meant “to put under” or “to supply enough,” built from *sub-* (“under”) + *facere* (“to make”), so the word’s hidden engine is literally “making up from beneath.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dʰeh₁-
“to put, place, do, make”
Latin
Latin
facere
“to do, make, perform”
Latin
Latin
sufficere
“to provide enough, be adequate; to substitute”
Old French
OF
suffisant
“adequate, enough”
Middle English
English
sufficient
“enough, adequate”
Modern English
English
sufficient
“enough for a particular purpose or need”