Where does “homoglyphic” come from?
homoglyphic (English) comes from English homoglyph, from English homograph, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.
homoglyphic (English): Being, involving or using the same or similar glyph, that is, homoglyph, for different character (as for example in font where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so)
Definitions
- Being, involving or using the same or similar glyph, that is, homoglyph, for different character (as for example in font where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so)
Ancestry of “homoglyphic”, step by step
homoglyphic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English homoglyph
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | homoglyph | A character identical or nearly identical in... |
| 2 | English | homograph | A word that is spelled the same as another word,... |
| 3 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 4 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 5 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 6 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 7 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 8 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 9 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 10 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English ic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ic | related or pertaining to; having the character of |