Where does “covidivorce” come from?
covidivorce (English) comes from English covid, from English COVID-19, from Translingual COVID-19, from Translingual COVID, from English disease, from Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise — not, un-.
covidivorce (English): A divorce obtained during the COVID-19 pandemic
Definitions
- A divorce obtained during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ancestry of “covidivorce”, step by step
covidivorce traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English covid
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | covid | A cubit |
| 2 | English | COVID-19 | COVID-19 disease |
| 3 | Translingual | COVID-19 | A disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019, in a zoonotic pandemic starting in Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| 4 | Translingual | COVID | A coronavirus disease |
| 5 | English | disease | An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant... |
| 6 | Middle English | disese | — |
| 7 | Anglo-Norman | desese | — |
| 8 | Old French | desaise | disease; deformity; melancholy |
| 9 | Old French | eise | ease |
| 10 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 11 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 12 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 13 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
via English divorcé
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | divorcé | A divorced man |
| 2 | French | divorcé | past participle of divorcer |
| 3 | Italian | divorzio | divorce; first-person plural present active... |
| 4 | Spanish | divorcio | divorce |
| 5 | Portuguese | divórcio | divorce |
| 6 | Latin | dīvortium | separation |
| 7 | Latin | dīvertere | — |
| 8 | Latin | dīvertō | to separate |
| 9 | Latin | dī- | Two, double; di |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | δί- | Twice, double |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | διά | throughout |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dwís | twice, doubly; in two |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | dwóh₁ | two |