Where does “event” come from?
Event comes from French éventer, derived from Latin eventus, the past participle of evenire, formed from the prefix ex- meaning "out" and venire meaning "to come."
event (English): An occurrence; something that happens; A...
Definitions
- An occurrence; something that happens; A...
Ancestry of “event”, step by step
event traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French event
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | event | — |
| 2 | Latin | ēventus | event, occurrence, reality |
| 3 | Latin | ēveniō | to happen, occur |
| 4 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 5 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 6 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 7 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via French éventer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | éventer | to air, ventilate; to fan; to expose to the wind |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | *exventāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | ventus | a wind; arrival |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | wentos | wind |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wéh₁n̥ts | blowing; that which blows; the wind, air |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wḗh₁ti | to blow |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weh₁- | to blow |