Where does “compartment” come from?
Compartment comes from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Latin compartior meaning to divide together, with the noun suffix -mentum.
compartment (English): A room, or section, or chamber; One of the parts...
Definitions
- A room, or section, or chamber; One of the parts...
Ancestry of “compartment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | compartiment | — |
| 2 | Italian | compartimento | district |
| 3 | Italian | compartire | To divide or share |
| 4 | Latin | compartior | I share |
| 5 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 6 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
Words derived from “compartment”
- compartmentalization
- compartmentalize
- compartmental
- compartmentation
- compartmentalisation
- compartmented
- unicompartmental
- compartmentalise
- multicompartment
- subcompartment
- intercompartmental
- multicompartmental
- compartmentally
- noncompartmental
- decompartmentalization
- decompartmentalize
- intercompartment
- compartmentalizer
- microcompartment
- bicompartmental
- subcompartmentalization
- decompartmentalise
- uncompartmentalized
- compartmentectomy