Where does “MIPS” come from?
MIPS (English) comes from English m, from English multisexual, from English multi, from English multituberculate, from English tuberculate, from Latin tuberculatus, from Latin tūberculum, from Latin tūber — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
MIPS (English): a RISC-style instruction set architecture
Definitions
- a RISC-style instruction set architecture
Ancestry of “MIPS”, step by step
MIPS traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English m
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | m | The ordinal number thirteenth, derived from this... |
| 2 | English | multisexual | Of, or pertaining to, more than one sex; Sexually... |
| 3 | English | multi | A multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus |
| 4 | English | multituberculate | Having molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of... |
| 5 | English | tuberculate | Having tubercles; Tubercular |
| 6 | Latin | tuberculatus | warty, tuberculate |
| 7 | Latin | tūberculum | a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle |
| 8 | Latin | tūber | a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | tūβos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |