Where does “counterexcitement” come from?
counterexcitement (English) comes from English excitement, from English excite, from Middle English exciten, from Old French exciter, from Latin excitō, from Latin excieo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
counterexcitement (English): A state of excitation in response or opposition to another such state
Definitions
- A state of excitation in response or opposition to another such state
Ancestry of “counterexcitement”, step by step
counterexcitement traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English excitement
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | excitement | the state of being excited; something that... |
| 2 | English | excite | To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement |
| 3 | Middle English | exciten | — |
| 4 | Old French | exciter | — |
| 5 | Latin | excitō | to call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon |
| 6 | Latin | excieo | Alternative form of exciō; call out, arouse,... |
| 7 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 8 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 19 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 20 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 21 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 22 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 23 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via English counter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | counter | One who counts; A reckoner; someone who collects... |
| 2 | Middle English | countour | An accountant; a financial recordkeeper |
| 3 | Middle French | contoir | Alternative spelling of comptoir |
| 4 | Middle French | compter | to recount; to tell |
| 5 | Old French | compter | — |
| 6 | Latin | computāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | computō | to calculate, compute, reckon together |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | -dō | to put |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | -dô | — |
| 11 | Sicilian | di | Used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner; of; ’s |
| 12 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 13 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 14 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |