Where does “adjoint” come from?
Adjoint comes from French adjoindre, from Middle French adjoindre, from Old French ajoindre, from Latin adiungo meaning to join to, derived from the prefix ad- plus the root yewg- meaning to join.
adjoint (English): That is related to another functor by an...
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- That is related to another functor by an...
Ancestry of “adjoint”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | adjoindre | to adjoin; to join up |
| 2 | Middle French | adjoindre | — |
| 3 | Old French | ajoindre | — |
| 4 | Latin | adiungō | — |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “adjoint”