Where does “appropinquity” come from?
appropinquity (English) comes from English propinquity, from English propinquent, from Middle English propinquite, from Middle French propinquité, from Latin propinquitas, from Latin propinquus, from Latin hinc, from Latin hīc — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
appropinquity (English): nearness; propinquity
Definitions
- nearness; propinquity
Ancestry of “appropinquity”, step by step
appropinquity traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English propinquity
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | propinquity | Nearness or proximity; Affiliation or similarity |
| 2 | English | propinquent | nearby; close at hand |
| 3 | Middle English | propinquite | closeness, proximity |
| 4 | Middle French | propinquité | — |
| 5 | Latin | propinquitas | nearness, propinquity, proximity; connection,... |
| 6 | Latin | propinquus | near, neighboring; near, at hand, not far off;... |
| 7 | Latin | hinc | hence, from this place; henceforth; because of... |
| 8 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 9 | Latin | heic | — |
| 10 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
via English AD
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | AD | borrowed from Latin; in the year of our Lord |
| 2 | English | advantage | Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or... |
| 3 | Middle English | avantage | — |
| 4 | Old French | avantage | advantage; profit; gain |
| 5 | Old French | avant | beforehand; earlier |
| 6 | Latin | ab ante | in front, before |
| 7 | Latin | ante | before, in front, forwards; before; before,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | κλίσις | bending, inclination; a lying down; a place for... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | -τις | retained after dentals |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |