Where does “floatovoltaics” come from?
floatovoltaics (English) comes from English photovoltaics, from English photovoltaic, from English Voltaic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.
floatovoltaics (English): The technology of photovoltaic cells that float in a water environment
Definitions
- The technology of photovoltaic cells that float in a water environment
Ancestry of “floatovoltaics”, step by step
floatovoltaics traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English photovoltaics
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | photovoltaics | The technology of the conversion of sunlight into... |
| 2 | English | photovoltaic | Producing a voltage when exposed to light |
| 3 | English | Voltaic | Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta or his work;... |
| 4 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 5 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 6 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 7 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 8 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 9 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 10 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 11 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 12 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 13 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 14 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English float
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | float | Of an object or substance, to be supported by a... |
| 2 | Middle English | flote | Alternative form of floute; Something that... |
| 3 | Old French | flote | fleet |
| 4 | Old Norse | floti | fleet |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | flutô | A float; flotation device; A raft; boat; ship |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | plewd- | to fly, flow, run |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | plew- | to fly, flow, run |