Where does “boxicity” come from?

boxicity (English) comes from English -icity, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.

boxicity (English): The minimum dimension in which a graph may be represented as a specific intersection of boxes

Definitions

  1. The minimum dimension in which a graph may be represented as a specific intersection of boxes

Ancestry of “boxicity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-icityUsed to form nouns, denoting a quality or...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-un-, non-, not
11Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én
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