Where does “Pentium” come from?
Pentium is an English trademark formation using the productive Latin suffix -ium, itself descended from Latin -um and -us, Old Latin -os, Proto-Italic -os, and Proto-Indo-European -ós.
Pentium (English): A CPU chip designed and manufactured by Intel, successor to the 486 chip, introduced in 1993
Definitions
- A CPU chip designed and manufactured by Intel, successor to the 486 chip, introduced in 1993
Ancestry of “Pentium”, step by step
Pentium traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pent | Confinement; concealment; Confined in a pen,... |
| 2 | English | pen | An enclosure used to contain domesticated... |
| 3 | English | penetration | The act of penetrating something; Specifically,... |
| 4 | Middle English | penetracioun | — |
| 5 | Old French | penetracïon | penetration (act, instance of penetrating) |
| 6 | Latin | penetrātiō | piercing, penetration |
| 7 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 8 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 9 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 10 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 11 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 12 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 13 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English ium
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ium | — |