Where does “antitransitivity” come from?
antitransitivity (English) comes from English transitivity, from French transitivité, from French transitif, from Dutch transitief, from Latin trānsitīvus, from Latin trānsitus, from Latin trānseō, from Latin trāns — smoke; mist, haze.
antitransitivity (English): The property of a binary relation that holds that if Rxy and Ryz, then not Rxz
Definitions
- The property of a binary relation that holds that if Rxy and Ryz, then not Rxz
Ancestry of “antitransitivity”, step by step
antitransitivity traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English transitivity
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | transitivity | The degree in which any one verb can take/govern... |
| 2 | French | transitivité | transitivity |
| 3 | French | transitif | transitive |
| 4 | Dutch | transitief | transitive |
| 5 | Latin | trānsitīvus | transiting passing over |
| 6 | Latin | trānsitus | traversed, passed through |
| 7 | Latin | trānseō | to traverse; cross, cross over; go across or over; pass, pass through, over or by |
| 8 | Latin | trāns | across, beyond |
| 9 | Latin | Padus | the River Po |
| 10 | Lepontic | Bodincus | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰudʰmḗn | bottom |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewbʰ- | deep |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |