Where does “e-confidence” come from?
e-confidence (English) comes from English confidence, from Latin confidentia, from Latin confido, from Latin con-, from Latin cum, from Latin quom, from Proto-Indo-European kʷóm, from Proto-Indo-European kʷos — The primary interrogative root.
e-confidence (English): Confidence in the use and teaching of information...
Definitions
- Confidence in the use and teaching of information...
Ancestry of “e-confidence”, step by step
e-confidence traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English confidence
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | confidence | Self-assurance; A feeling of certainty; firm... |
| 2 | Latin | confidentia | assurance, confidence; boldness, impudence,... |
| 3 | Latin | confido | I am confident or assured of, confide in,... |
| 4 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 5 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 6 | Latin | quom | Alternative form of cum |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷóm | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷos | See *kʷis |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷ- | The primary interrogative root |
via English E
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | E | The ordinal number fifth, derived from this... |
| 2 | Old English | E | — |
| 3 | Latin | E | Scribal abbreviation of the diphthong ae |
| 4 | Etruscan | 𐌄 | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ε | Lower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was εἶ, later ἒ ψιλόν, and presently έψιλον. It represents roughly the same sound in both alphabets: in Modern Greek, a somewhat lowered variant of the mid front unrounded vowel: or. It is preceded by δ and foll |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤄 | that |
| 7 | Egyptian | 𓀠 | — |