Where does “e-infrastructure” come from?
e-infrastructure (English) comes from English infrastructure, from French infrastructure, from French infra-, from Latin infra, from Latin īnferā, from French inférer, from Latin īnferō, from Latin īn- — in.
e-infrastructure (English): computer technology infrastructure
Definitions
- computer technology infrastructure
Ancestry of “e-infrastructure”, step by step
e-infrastructure traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English infrastructure
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | infrastructure | An underlying base or foundation especially for... |
| 2 | French | infrastructure | infrastructure an underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system |
| 3 | French | infra- | infra |
| 4 | Latin | infra | below |
| 5 | Latin | īnferā | — |
| 6 | French | inférer | to infer |
| 7 | Latin | īnferō | to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
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 | — |