Where does “gay-related immunodeficiency” come from?
gay-related immunodeficiency (English) comes from English deficiency, from English deficient, from Latin dēficiens, from Latin deficere, from Latin defectus, from Latin deficio, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
gay-related immunodeficiency (English): GRID; Synonym of AIDS
Definitions
- GRID; Synonym of AIDS
Ancestry of “gay-related immunodeficiency”, step by step
gay-related immunodeficiency traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English deficiency
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | deficiency | Inadequacy or incompleteness; An insufficiency,... |
| 2 | English | deficient | Lacking something essential; "often construed... |
| 3 | Latin | dēficiens | failing, disappointing |
| 4 | Latin | deficere | present active infinitive of dēficiō;... |
| 5 | Latin | defectus | failure; absence; weakness, failing, defect |
| 6 | Latin | deficio | I withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,... |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via English immune
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | immune | Exempt; not subject to; Protected by inoculation,... |
| 2 | Latin | immūnis | free or exempt from taxes, public service, or penalty (+ ablative) |
| 3 | Latin | in- -is | less, without, lacking |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |