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Where does “infimum” come from?

infimum (English) comes from Latin infimum, from Latin īnfimus, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér.

infimum (English): the greatest element of the containing set that...

Definitions

  1. the greatest element of the containing set that...

Ancestry of “infimum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latininfimumnominative neuter singular of īnfimus; accusative...
2Latinīnfimus—
3Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér—
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