Where does “emotionlessness” come from?
emotionlessness (English) comes from English emotionless, from English emotion, from French émotion, from French -tion, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
emotionlessness (English): The property of being emotionless
Definitions
- The property of being emotionless
Ancestry of “emotionlessness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | emotionless | Lacking emotion |
| 2 | English | emotion | movement; agitation; A person's internal state of... |
| 3 | French | émotion | emotion |
| 4 | French | -tion | Used to indicate action, condition, result or... |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |