Where does “excitation” come from?
Excitation comes from Old French excitation, derived from Latin excitatio, a noun formation using the Latin suffix -tio built on the Proto-Indo-European root -ti-, combined with Latin ex- meaning "out," which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European eǵ-.
excitation (English): The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act...
Definitions
- The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act...
Ancestry of “excitation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | excitation | — |
| 2 | Latin | excitatio | wakening; rousing; excitation |
| 3 | Latin | excitō | to call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon |
| 4 | Latin | excieo | Alternative form of exciō; call out, arouse,... |
| 5 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 6 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |