Where does “confine” come from?
Confine comes from Middle French confiner, from Middle French confins, from Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from Latin confinis meaning bordering or adjacent.
confine (English): To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or...
Definitions
- To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or...
Ancestry of “confine”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | confiner | — |
| 2 | Middle French | confins | — |
| 3 | Latin | confines | nominative masculine plural of cōnfīnis;... |
| 4 | Latin | confinium | confine; border; limit |
| 5 | Latin | confinis | bordering on, adjoining, contiguous |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 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,... |