Where does “MJPEG” come from?

MJPEG (English) comes from English motion, from Middle English mocioun, from Middle French motion, from Latin mōtio, from Latin movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- — to move.

MJPEG (English): A video compression format in which each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence is compressed separately as a JPEG image

Definitions

  1. A video compression format in which each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence is compressed separately as a JPEG image

Ancestry of “MJPEG”, step by step

MJPEG traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English motion

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmotionA state of progression from one place to another;...
2Middle Englishmocioun
3Middle Frenchmotion
4Latinmōtiomotion, movement
5Latinmovēre
6Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-to move

via English JPEG

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishJPEGAn image using the JFIF image file format,...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-Every word from Latin movēreEvery word from Latin mōtio