Where does “eigenvector” come from?
eigenvector (Dutch) comes from Dutch vector, from Dutch vaccin, from French vaccin, from French vaccine, from Latin vaccīnus, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Italic -īnos, from Proto-Indo-European -iHnos — adjectival suffix.
eigenvector (Dutch): eigenvector
Ancestry of “eigenvector”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Dutch | vector | vector, an element of a vector space |
| 2 | Dutch | vaccin | vaccine |
| 3 | French | vaccin | vaccine |
| 4 | French | vaccine | inflection of vacciner:
## first/third-person... |
| 5 | Latin | vaccīnus | — |
| 6 | Latin | -īnus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -īnos | of/belonging to |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHnos | Creates adjectives of materials |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -no- | adjectival suffix |