Where does “enviro-suit” come from?
enviro-suit (English) comes from English enviro, from English environmentalist, from English environmental, from English -ál, from English aldehyde, from German Aldehyd, from Latin alcohol, from Andalusian Arabic كُحُول — kohl, antimony paste.
enviro-suit (English): a garment covering the whole body which allows the wearer to maintain a separate atmosphere from the surroundings
Definitions
- a garment covering the whole body which allows the wearer to maintain a separate atmosphere from the surroundings
Ancestry of “enviro-suit”, step by step
enviro-suit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English enviro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | enviro | An ecofreak |
| 2 | English | environmentalist | One who holds the view that environment, rather... |
| 3 | English | environmental | Pertaining to the environment |
| 4 | English | -ál | Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also |
| 5 | English | aldehyde | Any of a large class of reactive organic... |
| 6 | German | Aldehyd | aldehyde |
| 7 | Latin | alcohol | kohl, collyrium, stibium; any other powder... |
| 8 | Andalusian Arabic | كُحُول | — |
| 9 | Arabic | كحل | antimony; kohl, stibnite; black coloring of the... |
| 10 | Arabic | كُحْل | antimony; kohl, stibnite |
| 11 | Akkadian | guḫlum | kohl, antimony paste |
via English suit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | suit | A set of clothes to be worn together, now... |
| 2 | Middle English | sute | Clothes or clothing; especially those that match;... |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | suite | pursuit |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | sequita | — |
| 5 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |