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Where does “distant” come from?

Distant comes from Latin distans, the present participle of distare, meaning to stand apart, from stare, to stand, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European steh₂-, to stand or place.

distant (English): Far off; Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to...

Definitions

  1. Far off; Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to...

Ancestry of “distant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishdistaunt—

Words derived from “distant”

  • distal
  • distantly
  • distally
  • mesiodistal
  • proximodistal
  • mesiodistally
  • distad
  • distalmost
  • distalization
  • distomedial
  • subdistal
  • proximodistally
  • anterodistal
  • distantness
  • distomedially
  • mediodistal
  • distality
  • posterodistally
  • ventrodistal
  • posterodistal
  • mediodistally
  • laterodistal
  • anterodistally
  • caudodistal
Every word from Middle English distaunt →