Where does “incidence” come from?
Incidence comes from Middle French incidence, from Latin incidentia, derived from the present participle incidens of incidere, meaning to fall upon or happen.
incidence (English): The act of something happening; occurrence; The...
Definitions
- The act of something happening; occurrence; The...
Ancestry of “incidence”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | incidence | incident; event; occurrence |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | incidentia | a falling upon; incident, occurrence, happening;... |
| 3 | Latin | incidens | falling upon; cutting up, hewing open;... |
| 4 | Latin | incidere | present active infinitive of incidō;... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |