Where does “Lintel” come from?
Lintel (English) comes from English intel, from English electronics, from English -ics, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.
Lintel (English): The computing environment of the Linux operating system running on an Intel CPU; mostly in a server
Definitions
- The computing environment of the Linux operating system running on an Intel CPU; mostly in a server
Ancestry of “Lintel”, step by step
Lintel traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English intel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | intel | intelligence |
| 2 | English | electronics | The study and use of electrical devices that... |
| 3 | English | -ics | Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or... |
| 4 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 5 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 6 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 7 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 8 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 9 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 10 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 11 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 12 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 13 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 14 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Middle English lyntel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | lyntel | — |
| 2 | Old French | lintel | lintel (beam) |
| 3 | Latin | lintellus | — |
| 4 | Latin | limitellus | — |
| 5 | Latin | līmes | limit, border, path |
| 6 | Latin | līmus | sidelong, askew, askance, sideways |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂leyH- | to smear |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | leyh₂- | to die, disapear; to avoid, elude, decline,... |
via English Linux
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Linux | The Unix-like open-source computer operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 |
| 2 | English | Linus | A town on the coast of ancient Mysia, on the Propontis, between Priapus and Parium |
| 3 | Latin | Linus | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Λῖνος | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | λίνον | flax; anything made of flax |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | līnom | flax |