Where does “incompressibleness” come from?
incompressibleness (English) comes from English incompressible, from English compressible, from English compress, from Middle French compresse, from Late Latin compressare, from Latin compressus, from Latin comprimō, from Latin cōn- — resin.
incompressibleness (English): The state or quality of being incompressible
Definitions
- The state or quality of being incompressible
Ancestry of “incompressibleness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | incompressible | Not compressible |
| 2 | English | compressible | able to be compressed; Containing a circle that... |
| 3 | English | compress | To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or... |
| 4 | Middle French | compresse | — |
| 5 | Late Latin | compressare | to press hard/together |
| 6 | Latin | compressus | compressed, restrained, repressed |
| 7 | Latin | comprimō | — |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | — |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |