Where does “extrinsic” come from?
Extrinsic comes from French extrinsèque, from Latin extrinsecus, from Latin exter, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sekʷ-.
extrinsic (English): external; separable from the thing itself;...
Definitions
- external; separable from the thing itself;...
Ancestry of “extrinsic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | extrinsèque | extrinsic |
| 2 | Latin | extrinsecus | From without, from abroad; externally;... |
| 3 | Latin | extrim | — |
| 4 | Latin | exter | On the outside, outward, external, outer; Of... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *eksteros | — |