Where does “density” come from?
Density comes from Middle French densité, from Latin densitās (quality of being dense), formed with the Latin suffix -itās derived from Proto-Indo-European -it-.
density (English): A measure of the mass of matter contained by a...
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- A measure of the mass of matter contained by a...
Ancestry of “density”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | densité | — |
| 2 | Old French | dempsité | — |
| 3 | Latin | densitas | thickness; density; abundance |
| 4 | Latin | -tās | ty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
Words derived from “density”
- densitometry
- teledensity
- densitometer
- hypodensity
- overdensity
- radiodensity
- hyperdensity
- isodensity
- microdensitometer
- photodensitometry
- underdensity
- tomodensitometry
- photodensitometer
- vortensity
- immunodensity
- chemodensity
- densitize
- electrodensity
- equidensity
- microdensity
- photodensity
- superdensity
- tomodensity
- cytodensitometry