Where does “decoupler” come from?
decoupler (English) comes from English decouple, from French découpler, from French coupler, from Latin cōpulāre, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium.
decoupler (English): That which decouples
Ancestry of “decoupler”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | decouple | To unlink; to take or come apart |
| 2 | French | découpler | to uncouple, decouple; to set apart |
| 3 | French | coupler | to couple |
| 4 | Latin | cōpulāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | cōpula | — |
| 6 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 7 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 8 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 9 | Latin | Apis | — |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 11 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | — |
| 12 | Egyptian | ḥp | — |