Where does “existent” come from?
Existent comes from Latin existens, the present participle of existere, meaning "to stand forth" or "to exist," from ex- meaning "out" combined with a root meaning "to stand."
existent (English): existing; having life or being, current;...
Definitions
- existing; having life or being, current;...
Ancestry of “existent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | existens | Alternative form of exsistens |
| 2 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 3 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 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 |