Where does “e-content” come from?
e-content (English) comes from English content, from Middle English content, from Latin contentus, from Latin contineo, from Latin cōn-, from Latin -dō, from Proto-Germanic -dô, from Sicilian di — afterwards, post; by, at.
e-content (English): resources offered in computerized form
Definitions
- resources offered in computerized form
Ancestry of “e-content”, step by step
e-content traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English content
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | content | satisfied; Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure;... |
| 2 | Middle English | content | — |
| 3 | Latin | contentus | stretched, strained, tense, tight, on the... |
| 4 | Latin | contineo | I hold or keep together/close, surround, contain;... |
| 5 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 6 | Latin | -dō | to put |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -dô | — |
| 8 | Sicilian | di | Used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner; of; ’s |
| 9 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 10 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 11 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |
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 | — |