Where does “invariance” come from?
Invariance comes from English variance with the prefix in-, from Middle English in-, from Latin in- meaning "not," derived from Latin in meaning "in" or "not," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots ne, oyd-, en, and en.
invariance (English): The property of being invariant
Definitions
- The property of being invariant
Ancestry of “invariance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | in- | in, into, towards, within; in, into; Used with... |
| 2 | Middle English | in- | — |
| 3 | Old English | in- | in, into; on, upon; internal, positioned on the... |
| 4 | Old English | in | in; Alternative form of inn |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *in | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | in | in; into |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | én | in |
Words derived from “invariance”