Where does “Wintel” come from?
Wintel (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.
Wintel (English): The computing environment of the Microsoft Windows operating system running on an Intel CPU
Definitions
- The computing environment of the Microsoft Windows operating system running on an Intel CPU
Ancestry of “Wintel”, step by step
Wintel traces back through two 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 English windows
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | windows | plural of window; Third-person singular simple... |