Where does “bicrescentic” come from?
bicrescentic (English) comes from English crescentic, from English crescent, from Middle English cressaunt, from Anglo-Norman cressaunt, from Old French creissant, from Latin crēscēns, from Latin crēscō, from Proto-Italic krēskō — army.
bicrescentic (English): Having the form of a double crescent
Definitions
- Having the form of a double crescent
Ancestry of “bicrescentic”, step by step
bicrescentic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English crescentic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | crescentic | Growing, increasing, gaining size, etc;... |
| 2 | English | crescent | The figure of the moon as it appears in its first... |
| 3 | Middle English | cressaunt | crescent shape or heraldic charge |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | cressaunt | — |
| 5 | Old French | creissant | present participle of creistre; crescent |
| 6 | Latin | crēscēns | coming to be |
| 7 | Latin | crēscō | to rise, grow, grow up; prosper, thrive; increase, multiply, augment |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | krēskō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |
via English bi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bi | Bisexual; A bisexual person; A type of jade disk... |
| 2 | English | biceps | Any muscle having two heads; Specifically, the... |
| 3 | Latin | biceps | double-headed, having two heads; having two... |
| 4 | Latin | bis | twice, two times, on two occasions, in two ways |
| 5 | Latin | color | colour, shade; color; pigment; complexion |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |