Where does “immunocompromised” come from?
Immunocompromised is a twentieth-century English formation combining immuno- (from Latin immunis, meaning exempt or free from) and compromised (from Old French compromis, meaning a settlement or agreement).
immunocompromised (English): Having an immune system that has been impaired by...
Definitions
- Having an immune system that has been impaired by...
Ancestry of “immunocompromised”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | compromised | simple past tense and past participle of... |
| 2 | English | compromise | The settlement of differences by arbitration or... |
| 3 | Middle French | compromis | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | compromissum | a compromise, originally a mutual promise to... |
| 5 | Latin | compromittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 7 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |