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Where does “hemovigilance” come from?

hemovigilance (English) comes from English vigilance, from Middle French vigilance, from Latin vigilantia, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

hemovigilance (English): The monitoring of blood transfusions and their...

Definitions

  1. The monitoring of blood transfusions and their...

Ancestry of “hemovigilance”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvigilanceAlert watchfulness; Close and continuous...
2Middle Frenchvigilance—
3Latinvigilantiavigilance, alertness; wakefulness
4Latin-iaUsed to form a feminine abstract noun, usually...
5Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
6Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
7Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
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