ad satis

Latin

From ad (“to”) +‎ satis (“enough”).

ad satis (not comparable) (Early Medieval Latin)

copiously
- Late 7th c. CE, Vita Sancti Arnulfi:[1]
  aqua squalens erat potus, et neque quotidie apponebatur, neque apposita ad satis sumebatur
  Squalid water served as their drink, and it was not offered every day, nor, once offered, was it drunk in great quantities.

Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: assai
- Italian: assai
  - → Catalan: assai (Algherese)
  - → Old Catalan: assay
- Neapolitan: assaje
- Sicilian: assai
Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: asæ
- Lombard: assè, assèi (Alpine)
- Piedmontese: assè, assà
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: asez (see there for further descendants)
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: assau
- Old Occitan: assatz
  - → Galician: assaz
  - → Old Catalan: assats
  - → Portuguese: assaz
  - → Spanish: asaz

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ad satis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 183

ad-satis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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