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

  1. a RISC-style instruction set architecture

Ancestry of “MIPS”, step by step

MIPS traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English m

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmThe ordinal number thirteenth, derived from this...
2EnglishmultisexualOf, or pertaining to, more than one sex; Sexually...
3EnglishmultiA multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus
4EnglishmultituberculateHaving molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of...
5EnglishtuberculateHaving tubercles; Tubercular
6Latintuberculatuswarty, tuberculate
7Latintūberculuma small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle
8Latintūbera hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence
9Proto-Italictūβos
10Proto-Indo-Europeantewh₂-to swell; to crowd; to be strong

via Translingual Ips

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TranslingualIpsgenus
2Ancient Greekἴ̄ψworm which eats wood and horn
Every word from Proto-Indo-European tewh₂-