Where does “barring engine” come from?
barring engine (English) comes from English engine, from Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, from Old French engin, from Latin ingenium, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere, from Latin genus — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
barring engine (English): A small, auxiliary motor that slowly rotates a large main engine (i.e. massive marine diesel or steam engine) to a specific position for starting, maintenance, or cooling, preventing damage and allowing precise alignment without full engine power
Definitions
- A small, auxiliary motor that slowly rotates a large main engine (i.e. massive marine diesel or steam engine) to a specific position for starting, maintenance, or cooling, preventing damage and allowing precise alignment without full engine power
Ancestry of “barring engine”, step by step
barring engine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English engine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | engine | A large construction used in warfare, such as a... |
| 2 | Middle English | engyn | engine; Engyn, Middle English, noun - skill,... |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | engine | — |
| 4 | Old French | engin | intelligence; ruse; trickery; deception;... |
| 5 | Latin | ingenium | innate or natural quality, natural character;... |
| 6 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 8 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |
via English barring
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | barring | present participle of bar; Bars; an arrangement... |
| 2 | English | bar | A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or... |
| 3 | French | barre | bar, cake, ingot; Clipping of barre oblique: the... |
| 4 | Middle French | barre | bar |
| 5 | Old French | barre | bar |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | barra | barrier |
| 7 | Frankish | bara | bar, beam, barrier, fence |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | barō | beam, bar, barrier |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰerH- | to pierce; to strike; brown |