Where does “inkjet” come from?
Inkjet combines English ink with English jet, which derives from Old French jet (a black stone), from Latin gagates, ultimately from Ancient Greek καίω meaning to burn.
inkjet (English): A device, particularly one used in the printing...
Definitions
- A device, particularly one used in the printing...
Ancestry of “inkjet”, step by step
inkjet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English ink
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ink | A pigment -based fluid used for writing, printing... |
| 2 | Middle English | ynke | ink |
| 3 | Old French | enque | ink |
| 4 | Latin | encaustum | the purple-red ink used by the later Roman... |
| 5 | Latin | encaustus | burned in, encaustic; the encaustic mode of... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ἔγκαυστος | burned in |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ἐν- | in, within; on |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ἐν | in, on, at; among; in, at, or during the time of |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | δέρμα | skin, hide |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | γλυφή | carving, carved work; hole cut |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | -ῐ́ᾱ | {{l|en|-ia}}; "suffix forming abstract feminine... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |
via English jet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | jet | A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or... |
| 2 | French | jet | throw; spurt, spout, jet; jet |
| 3 | Old French | get | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | iectus | — |
| 5 | Latin | iactus | thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been... |
| 6 | Latin | iacere | present active infinitive of iaciō; second-person... |
| 7 | Latin | iaceō | to lie prostrate, lie down; recline |
| 8 | Latin | -eō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |