Where does “emergence” come from?
Emergence comes from French émergence, derived from Latin emergentia, the noun form of emergere meaning "to bring forth or rise up."
emergence (English): The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth...
Definitions
- The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth...
Ancestry of “emergence”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | émergence | emergence |
| 2 | French | émergent | emerging; third-person plural present indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | emergens | emerging |
| 4 | Latin | emergo | I emerge; I surface; I arise or come forth |
| 5 | Latin | mergō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *mésgeti | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | mesg- | to dip, sink |
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