Where does “inertia” come from?
Inertia comes from Latin inertia, derived from Latin iners meaning sluggish or inactive, formed from Latin in- and Latin in meaning not, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ne and Proto-Indo-European h₁én.
inertia (English): The property of a body that resists any change to...
Definitions
- The property of a body that resists any change to...
Ancestry of “inertia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | inertia | want of art or skill, unskillfulness, ignorance;... |
| 2 | Latin | iners | without skill, unskilled, unskillful,... |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 4 | Latin | în | — |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “inertia”