Where does “infecting” come from?
Infecting comes from Middle French infect, from Latin infectus (past participle of inficio, meaning to dip in or taint), combining Latin in and facio (to make), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- (to put or place).
infecting (English): present participle of infect
Definitions
- present participle of infect
Ancestry of “infecting”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | infect | To bring into contact with a substance that... |
| 2 | Middle French | infect | — |
| 3 | Latin | infectus | not done, undone; unfinished; impossible |
| 4 | Latin | īnficiō | to dip, to dunk, to submerge |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |