Where does “desimantar” come from?
desimantar (Catalan) comes from Catalan imantar, from Catalan imant, from Old French aïmant, from Vulgar Latin adimas, from Latin adamās, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας, from Ancient Greek ἀ-, from Proto-Hellenic hə- — together, one.
desimantar (Catalan): to demagnetize
Definitions
- to demagnetize
Ancestry of “desimantar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | imantar | to magnetize |
| 2 | Catalan | imant | magnet |
| 3 | Old French | aïmant | lodestone |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | adimas | second-person singular present active subjunctive... |
| 5 | Latin | adamās | Adamant; the hardest steel or iron; diamond; an object made of adamant |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ἀδάμας | adamant, the hardest metal; a hard metal... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ἀ- | The alpha privativum, used to make words that... |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | hə- | same; together |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sm̥- | one; with, together |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sem- | together, one |