Where does “inventiveness” come from?
Inventiveness comes from English inventive plus the suffix -nesse, from Old English -nes, derived from Latin inventus, the past participle of invenīre meaning to find or discover.
inventiveness (English): The quality of being inventive; the faculty of...
Definitions
- The quality of being inventive; the faculty of...
Ancestry of “inventiveness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | inventive | Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the... |
| 2 | Middle English | inventif | inventive; creative |
| 3 | Old French | inventif | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | inventivus | — |
| 5 | Latin | inventum | invention; nominative neuter singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | invenio | I find; I discover, find out; I come upon |
| 7 | Latin | venio | I come; I approach |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | gʷenjō | to come |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷm̥yéti | to come |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |